On Music and Words
The document discusses the relationship between music, language, and symbolism, exploring the emotional and symbolic aspects of music, words, and gestures in human communication and expression.
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On Music and Words
I think we all want to be heard and music is a way to let out our inner emotional life, sometimes in a way that can’t necessarily be understood any other way. It functions different than prose or storytelling in that the music has an emotional base to it, even without the words. So you can feel this energy and express whatever’s going on inside of
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