Charles Rosen, The frontier of meaning, 1998

- at least if a work that I used to play, like the Third Piano Sonata of Hindemith, no longer gives me pleasure, I’m not bewildered by somebody else’s pleasure: I once shared it.”

“Taking pleasure in music ist the most obvious sign of comprehension, the proof that we understood it, and we may extend that we sympathy with other listeners’ enjoyment…