The performance or the score?

When I started reading Higgins book in class I found that she thought the actual performance of the music is more important that just saying the score of it is "music". I totally agree with her because of the fact that for it to be music I think the person has to play it or that the notes on the score have to be played. Without that why would we go to concerts? There would be nothing on the radio for us to listen to. Think about it we don't go to a concert and they put the score up of the music and people go crazy, or say "Man did you see Jimi Hendrix's score he just released! It is . Hell some people, like myself, can't even read music so we would have no idea how it is even suppose to sound. So I agree with Higgins that you for it to be considered music it has to be performed.