“To be sure, if we were to imagine Beethoven suddenly returning and hearing one of his works rendered in the animated and nervous manner for which our masters of performance are celebrated, he would probably for a long time stay dumb, undecided whether to raise his hand in a blessing or a curse, but at length say perhaps: “Well, yes! That is neither I nor not-I but some third thing — and if it is not exactly right, it is nonetheless right in its own way. But you had better take care what you’re doing, since it’s you who have to listen to it ­and, as our Schiller says, the living are always in the right. So be in the right and let me depart again.””

– Friedrich Nietzsche, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, 126