You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.
Jerry GarciaStuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.
Jerry GarciaMusic is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
Jerry Garcia