"Many people today seem to hold the mistaken belief that if we just keep singing Taiwanese songs they will become something world class," Chen Chiu-sen, director of the Taipei Municipal Orchestra, says with some emotion. "But they don't think about why we don't play Italian folk songs or German beer hall music. The reason is very simple: they're not refined enough."
「現在有許多人似乎有種誤解，認為台灣歌只要一直去唱，就會變成世界一流」，台北市立交響樂團團長陳秋盛略顯激動地說，「卻不想一想，為什麼我們不演奏義大利民歌，或德國的啤酒屋音樂，原因很簡單，因為不夠精緻。」