"Is what we get out of a performance today any different now than it was then? No, it’s the..."

“Is what we get out of a performance today any different now than it was then? No, it’s the same thing: the need for transcendence, or maybe just a distraction—a day at the beach, a trip to the mountains—from humdrum life, boredom, pain, loneliness. Maybe that’s all performance ever was, really. An unending kiss…”

- Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band (Dey St. 2015, p262)