What happens when the music stops? Where does it go? Michael Tilson Thomas More Quotes by Michael Tilson Thomas More Quotes From Michael Tilson Thomas If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting. Michael Tilson Thomas new will music space It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music. Michael Tilson Thomas you music happy children You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake. Michael Tilson Thomas feel you language people