Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.