Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.