A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?