{"id":2349,"date":"2021-09-13T15:10:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T13:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2021-09-13T15:10:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T13:10:20","slug":"quote-of-the-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?p=2349","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[Peter] Elias sees a bright future for\u00a0modern instruments, although he still encounters musicians who don\u2019t agree. \u201cA player will\u00a0come to me and have the\u00a0audacity to say: <strong>&#8216;This sounds OK for a new\u00a0instrument. but I prefer\u00a0old ones.\u2018<\/strong> I have got to\u00a0the point where I&#8217;ve\u00a0told them: <strong>\u2018Listen. I prefer dead\u00a0musicians too. I\u2019d much rather\u00a0have Paganini here than you\u00a0today!\u2019<\/strong> As a musician you\u2019re\u00a0allowed to live in your time. Why\u00a0shouldn&#8217;t an instrument maker? Is\u00a0he only there to patch up your old\u00a0instruments? Or is he allowed to\u00a0create something in his time \u2013 is\u00a0he allowed to have ideas in the\u00a0same way that Stradivari did \u2013 to\u00a0try things, different projects?\u201c<\/p>\n<p>(found at The Strand, Nov. 2000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[Peter] Elias sees a bright future for\u00a0modern instruments, although he still encounters musicians who don\u2019t agree. \u201cA player will\u00a0come to me and have the\u00a0audacity to say: &#8216;This sounds OK for a new\u00a0instrument. but I prefer\u00a0old ones.\u2018 I have got to\u00a0the point where I&#8217;ve\u00a0told them: \u2018Listen. I prefer dead\u00a0musicians too. I\u2019d much rather\u00a0have Paganini here than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}