Sound Commentary

What some people say about the power of music:

Music is spirit.

Music has exercised a pronounced effect on history, on morals and on culture; that music… is a more potent force in the moulding of character than religious creeds, precepts or moral philosophies.

The particular emotion which a given piece of music depicts is reproduced in ourselves. Furthermore,… the essence of the actual musical form tends to reproduce itself in human conduct. … – as in music, so in life.

There is no agent so powerful in giving us real rest as true music….
It does for the heart and mind, and also for the body, what sleep does for the body alone.

I partake of other people, as I partake of the music. Whether it is others, in their own natural movement, or the movement of music itself, the feeling of movement, of living movement, is communicated to me. And not just movement, but existence itself.