Is It a Higher Risk Game?

The probability that you're going to survive there in a real sense is extraordinarily low. So why play it? I would say well for the typical listener who doesn't know anything about broke music or classical music or romantic music, who's afraid of being made a fool of when they first enter into it. "It's probably somewhat easier to carve out a space for yourself if you're working in a rather individual musical idiom," he says.