Creativity Quote by Eberhard Weber

Tolerance is easy when you get to leave the room. Eberhard Weber’s line lands because it draws a clean boundary between public openness and private standards, then admits the uncomfortable truth behind artistic “freedom”: the artist is also the first captive audience. As a musician, he can applaud pluralism in the scene - let everyone “play what they want” - while still treating his own record as a lifelong contract. That last clause, “for the rest of my life,” isn’t melodrama; it’s the practical horror of permanence. Recordings don’t age with you in the way a live set does. They fossilize a taste, a technique, a moment of confidence you may not recognize later.

The subtext is a quiet defense of rigor that refuses to dress itself up as elitism. Weber isn’t policing other people’s expression; he’s describing responsibility. The album becomes a mirror you can’t take down. For a player associated with ECM’s pristine, highly curated sound world, this rings especially true: that label culture rewards understatement, tone, and long-form coherence, the kind of choices that only reveal their consequences after years of replay.

He also smuggles in a sly ethical point: tolerance isn’t the same as indiscrimination. You can be generous to the world and exacting with yourself. In a creative economy that often confuses “authentic” with “unfiltered,” Weber’s “intolerance” reads less like harshness than like craft - the kind that understands your name on the cover is the one thing you can’t outsource.