If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.