“The new short (24 minutes) film by Bob Burnett, What Is Man And What Is Guitar? Keith Rowe, is one of the best films about a musician I’ve seen. The decision to make music rather than do something else can present immense logistical problems for a person. Rowe, and his band, AMM, have always seemed to me like people who thought they were precisely doing everything else by choosing to play music. Which is to say that the difficulty of Rowe’s music seems more about his decision to include more of himself rather than a desire to exclude more of you. His gentle brand of iron-willed is pure inspiration.”
—Sasha Frere-Jones