From 《The Music of Man》 (1)

The Greeks knew this well and acknowledged man in his wholeness, giving due respect to his dual nature: one half of the Apollonian, always striving for clarity and moderation; the other the Dionysian, driving toward the fantastic and orgiastic. We revel in our senses, as we revel in the powers of our mind and soul. Today these senses are at the mercy of commercial society to whom all tastes are but appetites to be used and abused for the sake of profit. Inexorably, since my boyhood in San Francisco, I have seen the dislocation of the natural and instinctive flair and taste for the genuine twisted to the acceptance of the odorless flavors, the plastic plants, the whole flattening of the aesthetic responses, even to the acceptance of the appalling distortion of pure sound when something termed music pours through various mechanical devices in one long adenoidal wail.

对音乐的了解没有那么深厚，但是如果这句话用在当今的文坛真可谓是一矢中的呀！