Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't. Even if it's poetically written and technically brilliant, I'd rather hear something that's all over the place but has some soul to it.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
I mean, music totally comes from your soul.
I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.