Prevost 43: "Ultimately, it is not enough simply to play, to make sounds, for the joy of activity and aural pleasure. We might, in some idealist or abstract mood, imagine a hermit meta-musical master complementing the world's voice with soothing and vibrating noise, in a lonely self-fulfilling vigil. The reality is that music is the most gregarious of art-forms. Musicians gather, needing each other, to give meaning and direction to their activity. The most fundamental reason for making music is to communicate and this ability and its fulfilment is fundamental to human existence."
"There may be no more important thing for a human being to do than make a sound and know that it is being heard by another human being"