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"Music can have wonderful, formal, quasi-mathematical perfection, and it can have heartbreaking tenderness, poignancy and beauty [...] But it does not have to have any "meaning" whatever. One may recall music, give it the life of imagination (or even hallucination) simply because one likes it - that is reason enough. Or perhaps there may be no reason at all [...]"
— May 30, 2021 03:29PM
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"Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation."
— May 30, 2021 03:36PM
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"'The musician in full flight," [Frank Wilson] wrote in 1988, "is an operational miracle, but a miracle with peculiar and sometimes unpredictable vulnerabilities."'
— May 30, 2021 03:34PM
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'"Every act of perception," Edelman writes, "is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination."'
— May 30, 2021 03:31PM
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"But why this incessant search for meaning or interpretation? It is not clear that any art cries out for this and, of all the arts, music surely the least - for while it is the most closely tied to the emotions, music is wholly abstract; it has no formal power of representation whatever."
— May 30, 2021 03:26PM
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'"The inexpressible depth of music," Schopenhauer wrote, "so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain. . . . Music expresses only the quintessence of life and of its events, never these themselves."'
— May 30, 2021 03:22PM
