But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.
Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
Music is the soul of language.
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.