Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.
Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?
Music isn't only a profession.
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.
I don't think there should be a hierarchy of what is valid in the arts.
Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level.
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