Stirling Newberry ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>The original quote was that "all music is good music, except the *boring*
>kind." A much better view, because once temporary music starts to bore its
>audience, it will go away, and not one minute before.  And once a piece of
>lasting music is played by boring people, and listned to by people who talk
>about it in a boring way, then it too will die.

Ah, but whose "original" quote? It was Kurt Weill who said "I have never
acknowledged the difference between 'serious' and 'light' music.  There
is only good music and bad music."

Someone earlier than Kurt?

Deryk Barker
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