The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.
Robert FrippAccording to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
Robert FrippThe spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
Robert Fripp