“We don’t play music in order to get somewhere. I mean, if the objective of music were to arrive at a point, say the last bar,…
“We don’t play music in order to get somewhere. I mean, if the objective of music were to arrive at a point, say the last bar, the final great crashing pause of the symphony, well than all we’d do we’d be just hurry up it’s playing, play it as fast as possible so as to get to the culmination as soon as possible. Or, just cut out the whole symphony and play only the last bars.”— Alan Watts