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Let me say again that it means that you’d better know the fun-
damentals. It is dangerous to acquire advanced new techniques
without knowing the fundamentals. It is dangerous because it is
self-defeating. You don’t understand the basic assumptions; you
don’t understand the limitations. And so you are a virtuoso, but
you don’t make music. You make noise very fast, and that isn’t
the same thing as making music.

From a lecture delivered at Claremont Graduate School (currently known
as Claremont Graduate University).