Nothing pleases me more than hearing my kids hum and sing as they play. Luckily, they do it almost constantly, like little songbirds who can't contain themselves. It's true that my wife and I have something to do with this. We usually have music playing in the house and car, and we fire up the guitars and piano regularly, singing together as much as we can.
Music is, in my opinion, the most potent of art forms. It delivers sonic impressions directly to the eardrums and requires little to no analysis, instantly forming images in the mind and emotions in the heart. In their endless combinations, the constructs of music - melodies, harmonies, chords, rhythms - can express enjoyment, sadness and any other conceivable contour of life. But hey, don't take my word for it.
"Without music life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once." - Robert Browning
"In the end I think of music as a saving grace for all humanity. As the universal language it transcends the boundaries of nationality, social strata and political ideology. Whether we are educated or uneducated, rich or poor, whether we speak the same tongue or not, we still possess the ability to communicate our feelings to one another through music. The world would be a terrible place without it, a miserable place." - Henry Miller
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." - Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." - Victor Hugo
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
THIS WEBSITELevelheaded perspectives on MY SONGSClick here for a selection of MY VIDEOS
|