“Detest bad music but do not despise it. As it is played, and especially sung, much more passionately than good music, it has much more than the latter been impregnated, little by little, with man’s tears. Hold it therefore in veneration. It’s place, nonexistent in the history of art, is immense in the sentimental history of nations”. – Marcel Proust

From hardkoraoke.blogspot.com. Maybe I’ve found a kindred spirit?