“I think there is something that particularly belongs to music and that’s the way it allows you to monitor the changes in your perceptions over a period of time. This is, by the way, only true of recorded music. But in listening to a record repeatedly, you’re hearing something that you know is identical every time it’s played. It doesn’t change, so if something seems different, a change has clearly happened in you. So as you listen to a piece of music over a period of years and it assumes different levels of mood, connotation and meaning, what you’re really hearing is your own shift going on.”

Brian ENO