I have never heard enough classic music to be able to enjoy it.

I dislike the opera because I want to love it and can't.
I suppose there are two kinds of music--one kind which one feels, just as an oyster might, and another sort which requires a higher faculty, a faculty which must be assisted and developed by teaching.

Yet if base music gives certain of us wings, why should we want any other?
But we do.

We want it because the higher and better like it.

We want it without giving it the necessary time and trouble; so we climb into that upper tier, that dress-circle, by a lie; we PRETEND we like it.