All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede.
By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.
In so many ways, when you're in college, you're even closer with the locker room than you are with a professional team.