“That's why I like to listen to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all the performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm drivin…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Works that have a certain imperfection to them have an appeal for that very reason—or at least they appeal to certain types of people . . . You discover something about that work that tugs at your heart—or maybe we should say the work discovers you.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com