What is Music with a Capital M?

A: Many things to many people. For some sample thoughts, see below.

"It seems that, most of all, he despised the mystique that had been built, like an ivory tower, around the hallowed feet of Music-with-a-capital-M."
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"I wanted to make music out of sound, instead of sound out of music - which is what people who write Music intend to do."
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"There is the right amount of tricky chord sequences and weird tempos and tempo changes and all that you expect as well, but the technical aspects never get in the way of the delivery of music, or rather Music (with a capital M). "
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"To speak of a ‘history of music’ is to posit a stable object of investigation – an effect that is even more pronounced in German, where one speaks not of ‘music’ or even ‘Music-with-a-capital-M’, but of die Musik."
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"(Most classical music critics and writers use the word 'Music' with a capital M, and talk as if other kinds of music just don't exist - or as if rock and jazz just aren't 'music' at all.)"

"The real question that I think all guitarists should ask themselves is 'Do I want to be a rock-star, or do I want to be a musician?' Do you realize there is a difference between a rock-star, and a musician?"
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"Q: Is what you do Art, with a capital A, or something less precious than that?

A: It's Music, with a capital M. With all capital letters."
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