“The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.”
“The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.”
“You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live”
“He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget that there was randomness all around us. The same, he said, could be said for great books.”
“To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence”
“The function of man is to live, not to exist.”