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Ok, it's quite obvious to me why Mr. Dunn-Rankin even brought that up in the first place. There is too much of that sentiment in this forum and uneducated composers/musicians. They feel insecure with having to cope with new styles and new forms of expression, so they immediately label it as insanity. I'm sure that Schoenberg was labeled as insane throughout his life, but the point is that even Beethoven and Mozart were labeled as insane.
Just because you as a person cannot understand or come to terms with the new doesn't mean that the new is insane. I think that it was a brilliant idea to just dump the quote in the thread and see what sort of answers you would get. As soon as I saw that this thread was created, I pretty much knew that there was going to be an extremely negative and skeptical response.
But then again, that was the point of the quote: to expose the insecurity of people having to cope with new things.
Lesson/moral of the quote: DON'T DISMISS NEW THINGS SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY ARE NEW OR YOU DON'T LIKE IT.
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Favorite composers: Beethoven, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Bach, Schumann
Playable instruments: Saxophones, Violin, Clarinet, Piano
Favorite pieces: F.M-B.:String Quartet in A minor ------------------------------------ 
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