A Good George Martin Epitaph

"Well, you can't look at it and say, "What a nice piece of music that is." You've got to spend a bit of your life in order to appreciate it. Every time you listen "to a symphony, you invest forty minutes of your life. You've only got a finite amount of time on this earth, and you've just spent forty minutes of it listening to a symphony, or to an album! The fact is that music doesn't exist at all without time; time is the dimension which makes it work. I suppose that's true of dance, also, but music is the most sublime of all the arts. It's the most intangible, it's a mystery, and it's been with us since we were primeval. Human beings were making music eighty thousand years ago, before they could talk. I think it's the most fundamental part of our lives; in fact, without rhythm, we wouldn't exist. Your heart is pumping out a rhythm, and when it stops, you don't live anymore, so rhythm is actually the difference between life and death. Everything has a rhythm sun, the moon, the stars. It really makes you think..."