Some thoughts on the subject.
"The musical experience needs three human beings at least. It requires a composer, a performer, and a listener; and unless these three take part together there is no musical experience"
Benjamin Britten

For MattR .."Ours is the folk music of the technological age" Jimmy Page

"My moment of glory is being on the stage and singing and feeling all the love the audence sends me... It's beyond any mortal high" Elvis Presley