Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

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

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.