Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

The performances in the future would be like an audience wired to somebody who was sort of instigating, and then moment-to-moment creation would be transmuted individually.

You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What it can do, what it can't do.

We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.