And also, you know, with all that music theory and history, and classical composers bending the rules, but doing so SLOWLY, always just slightly pushing the envelope but always constraining themselves to the social norms of music at the time whether they knew they were or not etc etc. You know, all that stuff about how music history as a whole is a story about filling up a box with ideas until it was full, and then trying to stuff MORE in, and then eventually getting a bigger box, filling THAT one up, and trying to stuff EVEN MORE in, and then getting a BIGGER box and repeating, and eventually saying "fuck the box" and all that. But even 12 tone music, which sounds like it has no rules, in fact has incredibly strict rules to follow. Creativity comes from being challenged, and you need limitations to be challenged.