Music in a phrase

despite life being a mistake, i do like that nietzsche quote 

Edited by JD - January 17 2022 at 15:47

My definition: "Music, as a general and personal concept, is the eternal reflection of evolution".

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Music was my first love And it will be my last Music of the future And music of the past To live without my music Would be impossible to do In this world of troubles My music pulls me through - John Miles (1949-2021)

Paul, this is so great, thank you man! I remember the precise moment I first heard the lines: a schoolmate played the LP for me, and looking at the cover I thought "what the h*ll is he doing with that shotgun on the shoulders?".

Edited by Heart of the Matter - January 18 2022 at 04:12

"There is one aspect that akins music to snow, and that is, when it is prescent one can not avoid its impact on its surrounding but in one moment it is gone without any trace, in a flux moment both snow and music luls you into its place and the other moment it is gone".

When the snow is melted the landscape which were transformed by its presence is gone like a distant memory. Music is the only art form that is purely in the mind, painting, arcitecture and poetry have a physical presence, music is only telmporal.

I reccomend Hegels Aestetics in the power of music, though Hegel held poetry as the highest srt he also hell music in high regard as an art.

"If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom."

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, On the Arts: Selections from G.W.F. Hegel's Aesthetics or the Philosophy of Fine Art



Edited by Icarium - January 18 2022 at 00:22

I voted "other". My quote is: " If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die". This is spoken by Orsino in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"; he is lovesick and hopes that by overdosing on music his love will die.

Other: "Music is waste of time, but it's alright." Discordian proverb.

^ Thanks Pekka and Christoffer, I guess that "wasting" time in music is a experience telling us that we are not (completely) programed yet, that we can do and feel other things.
Schopenhauer is a reading that I'm doing right now. I find very impressive not only the deep of his thinking, but also his ability to justify his points of view.

^^^ Thanks Pekka, Lewian, Doug. I didn't know Congreve's line. It reminds me a bit the Shakespeare's line quoted above by Friede, both emphasize the straight and soothing impact of music in the heart troubled by love or whatever.