Music :)
"Music is a strangely paradoxical thing. It is part of the human world, and yet somehow not part of it; when people are touched by it they are both reconciled to themselves (you could even say: revealed to themselves) and yet they're also lifted outside and beyond their own littleness. It is the most insubstantial thing in human life, mere vibrations on the air; but viewed another way it is mundanely real, the basis of a colossal global industry, the thing that anchors people to the present moment and to each other. It asserts boundaries, of nation and groups and cultures, it demarcates social spaces and co-ordinates and unifies great collective moments--funerals, declarations of war, political rallies. But it also spills over them. Music subverts our categories; it stirs up passions, rouses long-dormant memories. It can change its meaning, spill over its own categories of genre and style, leap across cultural boundaries, mingle itself with the very thing that, a moment ago, it asserted its difference from." -Ivan Hewett, Music: Healing the Rift.
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"The listener can and does 'lose himself in the music'. That is to say that he becomes completely oblivious of his own ego, which has literally become one with that of the music." (Meyer)
"A performer must play everything in such a way that he will himself be moved by it." (Leonard Mozart)
"Music is a language of feeling." (Josiah Booth)
Also.. exstacy, comes from the Latin exstasis, ex for 'outside' and stasis for 'standing': Standing outside of yourself.
WORD.
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"The listener can and does 'lose himself in the music'. That is to say that he becomes completely oblivious of his own ego, which has literally become one with that of the music." (Meyer)
"A performer must play everything in such a way that he will himself be moved by it." (Leonard Mozart)
"Music is a language of feeling." (Josiah Booth)
Also.. exstacy, comes from the Latin exstasis, ex for 'outside' and stasis for 'standing': Standing outside of yourself.
WORD.