It is the best of all worlds to make songs. The destiny of music education is to teach us to love this great force not merely as an ornament, but for its enobling energy, for its power of making us better by arousing within each individual a perception of what is good, just and beautiful. The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. The opera always loses money. That's as it should be.
Opera has no business making money.
With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution . Classical philosophy did not censor the singers. Nothing is more characteristic of human nature than to be soothed by sweet modes and stirred up by their opposites. The soul of the universe was joined together according to musical concord. For when we hear what is properly and harmoniously united in sound in conjunction with what is harmoniously coupled and joined together within us and are attracted to it, then we recognize that we ourselves are put together in its likeness.