I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.”
“I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.”