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

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.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.

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

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.