Michael Tilson Thomas

gorgeous sound that's there but to get the sound to be distinct is difficult and I sometimes tell my students that playing classical music is like making an announcement in an airport that you hear someone say passengers on flight 391 immediately please

So you're trying to make every single moment completely distinct.

Another way Bessie had of saying that, she said, listen, when you're doing an accent, you've got to watch out for the ninth void.

That's the ninth void that's dangerous because you're saying, I was going to the park one day and I noticed the most beautiful.

Suddenly, you know, around that, you'll suddenly drop the accent.

You'll drop it.

You've got to keep the contour of it all the way going through.

Same thing in music.