Charles Rosen Quotes

• “A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed; it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.”

  Charles Rosen

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• “A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public.”

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• “The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.”

  Charles Rosen

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• “To appreciate a new and difficult style, as I have said, takes an act of will, a decision to experience it again.”

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• “expression is always concentrated in the dissonance.”

  Charles Rosen

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