The article explores importance of music for some French writer and poets including Emmanuel Hocquard , Lacoue-Labarthe, and Louis-René des Forêts. It further highlights and discusses "No music, not now!" appear in "Phrase," Lacoue-Labarthe's book of poems and prose, published in 2000. It mentions that Lacoue-Labarthe has also played sax in a jazz band, and that he would have liked most to be a drummer.