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

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

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

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.