"The musician pays a price in order to play music. 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. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real." #QotD

"The musician [pays a price] in order to play music... 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... 

    "May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse. When all is impossible and without hope, may we trust this inexpressible benevolence ... and listen to its silent voice with a quiet ear." 

          ~ guitarist Robert Fripp, from the liner notes to King Crimson's Great Deceiver, Vol. I.