“I wanted to be the music.” - Madeline Kahn

…I realized what she’d said about herself was the impulse behind all of my own interests, all of my needs, all of my studying, compulsions, and passions, and had I been aware of that idea when I was starting out, had I been able to assimilate it, live within it, I would have saved endless years of frustration and work and confusion because that thought was at the very bottom of what I was looking for. So much had been invested in craft, in externalization, in looking for something solid out there that would fill the void, create a sense of flight, of getting out of the oppression of self.

We don’t want to do it; we want to be it. Only we don’t know it. No one tells us.
This is dedicated to everyone who wants to be the music.