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

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

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

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.

When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.

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