Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained, so that over time we'd be lucky if we just broke even. Any thought otherwise was empty pride. p. 380 Charles Frazier
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In The Name Of The Wind, Patrick Rothfuss states that people often make songs to keep their memories alive. However, after time the songs become something dead and boring. In order to bring back the original magic of a song, musicians have to constantly change it. However, there is a trade off. In changing the song, musicians may lose some of the magic that made it a song in the first place.

Source: Cold Mountain

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