Truth to tell...

In a way that nobody understands--so it's safe for me to say so--I am Confucius.

Only it's no longer the music of the Shang Dynasty that I think we ought to imbue ourselves with and play and listen to in behavior-modifying rituals, but, in general, the music of Western European and American Civilization, from about the thirteenth ('Sumer is a-cumin in') century, through the nineteenth century, maybe as far as Aaron Copland--but pretty much as prescribed

by Johann Joseph Fux.

And it's not parents and the Emperor that I think we ought to be especially mindful and respectful of, but children and animals.