Music :)

Nov 18, 2005 02:18

"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 ( Read more... )

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More Wordy than I thought stesch_jahic November 18 2005, 14:11:29 UTC
I know it will sound a little bit random, but I love learning about the origin of words and how they came to be. So I like your random ecstacy comment.

As to the natural beuaty that surrounds us, aye, enjoy it and do not miss any of it. I agree with living life to the fullest, although the life I am experiencing in some ways for the first time isn't of natural beauty.

It is a rare and wondrous thing that you have found an element to express yourself so fully in, the language of music. It is a thing both as old as time and as new as the moment a note is played. Many people go through life hearing, but never knowing, the joys of music. Many of us never miss that passion and freedom of expression that comes to you through music. Some of us find our passion and freedom in other ways, and so have a notion of what music has given you. But with music you can give yourself over to something greater, work with others in a thing of beauty in a way that others cannot. And best of all, the music makers make their music to share with us a part of that passion.

-Stephen

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