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In music, one doesn't make

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the end of the composition

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the point of the composition.

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If that were so, the best conductors

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would be those who played fastest.

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And there would be composers

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who wrote only finales.

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[laughs] People would go to concerts

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just to hear one crashing chord--

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and that's the end [laughs].

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But, we don't see that as, uh, something

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brought by our education

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into our everyday conduct.

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We've got a system of schooling

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that gives a completely different impression.

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It's all graded and what we do is we put the

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child into the corridor of this grade system

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with a kind of, "come on kitty kitty kitty"

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and now you go to kindergarten, you know, and that's a

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great thing because when you finish that

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you get into first grade and then, come on,

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first grade leads to second grade and so on.

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And then you get out of grade school you got high school

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and it's revving up--the thing is coming--

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and then you've got to go to college.

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And, by jove, then you get into graduate school.

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And when you're through with graduate school

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you go out and join the world.

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And then you get into some racket

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where you're selling insurance

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and they've got that quota to make.

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And you're going to make that.

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And all the time the thing is coming.

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It's coming, it's coming --that great thing--

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the success you're working for.

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Then when you wake up one day

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about 40 years old

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and you say, "My god I've arrived!"

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"I'm there!"

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And you don't feel very different

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from what you've always felt.

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And there's a slight let down because you feel

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there's a hoax.

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And there was a hoax.

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A dreadful hoax.

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They made you miss everything

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We thought of life by analogy with a journey

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with a pilgrimage

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which had a serious purpose at the end.

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And the thing was to get to that end.

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Success or whatever it is...

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or maybe heaven after you're dead.

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But, we missed the point the whole way along.

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It was a musical thing and you were supposed

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to sing or to dance while the music was being played.