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. . . When we speak of
machine-made music . . . we
are not speaking of music in the highest sense, because, no matter how
much the world becomes a Machine Age, music will have to be created in
the same old way. The Machine Age can affect music only in its distribution.
Composers must compose in the same way the old composers did. No one has
found a new method in which to write music. We still use the old signatures,
the old symbols. The composer has to do every bit of his work himself.
Handwork can never be replaced in the composition of music. If music ever
became machine-made in that sense, it would cease to be an art.
George Gershwin
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