Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.
Who is sitting in that empty chair?
Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.
That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.
I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.
I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.