John Adams Interview

[Franco]

There is an article that quotes from an interview with John adams here and this quote stood out for me:

I ask him what he feels about becoming a sort of American national treasure - their composer laureate, as it were, perhaps occupying the space that Aaron Copland filled a generation ago. "I would say you have to understand that in America classical music, and in particular, contemporary classical music, means nothing to 99.9 per cent of the population.

And yet, that .1% still manages to argue so much.