love

some musicians have chops, and when i say that i mean that they can pull off all manner of grotesque medley of outlandish combination of perpetual chaos on their chosen instrument and they do so with precision that evidences devout practice, but they may still totally lack more than a very basic understanding of the theory or science of music; some musicians have chops and a deep fundamental knowledge of sonic convergences and divergences, modes and scales, tunings and mathematics, and they can slip undetectably between countless styles and functions, weaving potent and almost willing threads of audio between and around one another, but they too may be in deficit of something more fundamental to the intrinsic beauty of the musical form. the truly celebrated and revelatory musicians, and as well the most celebrated and revelatory artists and people of all kinds, possess something perhaps altogether more important than ability or even knowledge, which is an entire and absolute love, not only of music but of life itself.