As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.
“An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.”
“If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.”