"The sweet, passionate melody captivated his heart from the first note; it was full of radiance, full of the tender throbbing of inspiration and happiness and beauty, continually growing and melting away; it rumoured of everything on earth that is dear and secret and sacred to mankind; it breathed of immortal sadness and it departed from the earth to die in the heavens."
That is music according to Ivan Turgenev.
How is it that music can trigger such emotion? How does sound bring that around? To be quite honest, I have no idea. Music can be more meaningful than words to me. A chord speaks volumes. If a picture is worth a thousand words, well, then a song must be worth millions. If I couldn't hear music, I wouldn't know how to express feelings as well.
See, people think on many levels at once. Our thoughts are all connected. Thinking of love makes you think of a person, which in turn can make you think of regret, happiness, or anger. And those emotions will carry your thoughts to entirely different realms. Music has a way of marrying all of these different thoughts together into one piece of work. It can speaks to each person in a different way. It layers the thoughts and weaves them so that you almost can see the mind of the author. It connects us as nothing else can.
Current Favorite Song: Miles Neuvirth: I Know
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