Jazz.
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Check out Thomas Chapin:
My friend took me to see his trio play at the Knitting Factory back in 92 or 93. I was a hardcore metalhead who didn't have time for jazz, but that night changed and challenged me and I fell in love with jazz.. Thomas Chapin was a brilliant instrumentalist and composer and sadly died of leukemia three weeks before his 41st birthday.
I keep one of his quotes tacked up on my wall:
"You need opposition, friction. Without friction there is no heat, no energy, no life. You strive towards higher things, but you also have a body that wants to swing, that has erotic desires, that has to eat. Those are the devils, good and bad, that you should remain on good terms with. Sounds that are nothing but sweet end up not being sweet at all; it's when they're bittersweet that they become beautiful... "