Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Hanging out with people in the funny business has given me a very different perspective on this humor stuff. Listening to them discuss their work strongly reminds me of how different the perspective of being a musician is from being a music fan. To the non-musician music fan, music is magic and mysterious and irrational and affective. Meanwhile, the musicians making that magical, mysterious, irrational, affective stuff are matter-of-factly operationalizing rules for producing the magical, mysterious, irrational, and affective." -- siderea, 2009-08-26

[I would add: Not that one can't be experiencing the magic and affective aspects of music at the same time as one is performing it, but being a musician does give a different perspective on how the magic happens.]