Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.
Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
Language is by its very nature a communal thing.
Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.
The people did not elect me. I speak with one voice that may echo other people, but I am part of a group of people. That's not distancing yourself from a community, that's also allowing the space for others to speak for themselves.
Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.
There's never been a time when there hasn't been ritualistic dancing, and I think clubbing is our modern incarnation of that.
Where I come from, music is not a business. Sharing music is a business, but music is not a business. It comes from the people and belongs to the people.
With music, there's a conversation happening. You're hearing what's going on right now, with people's emotional states, in a communal way, and listening to that is really - it's both informative and so generous. It's like emotional news.
Music and dance have also always been a communal activity, something that everyone participated in. The thought of a musical concert in which a class of professionals performed for a quiet audience was virtually unknown throughout our species' history.
