When we see music, face to face, we see that music creates the musician. Then, we consider the question: are we willing to be played by music? If the answer is "yes", there follows a life of suffering.
Sometimes music asks us not to be played, but to listen. That is, to give to music a pair of ears through which music may listen to itself. This is as "real" a need as giving music voice. The tragedy of contemporary rock performance (at least) is the extent to which we pack our ears with deafness, & then claim deafness as our right.
-- Robert Fripp, 8/18/2000
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