You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way."

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

Falsely conceived and rather clumsily executed . . . crooked folklore and halfway opera.

"The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it."