Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil. - Albert Schweitzer
I absolutely adore music, for this reason. What is music? we are asked. Music is what makes us happy. Music can come from instruments, or music can come from other things in the world. Music can be in the touch of a loved one, or the sound of a symphony. Music is what makes us feel better. Marx could just as easily had said "Music is the opiate of the masses." It's all a matter of what's pleasing to the individual, just like so many things in the world. Sorry if this doesn't please the nihilists or pessimists in the class, but this is my take on it. :)
~Lisa
Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it. - Kurt Vonnegut
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But an opiate drugs us to the full reality of the world (religion was, for Marx, "the flowers on our chains"); music often reveals the world to us.
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