“Music… immerses us in seemingly stable worlds! How can this be, when there is so little of it present at each moment?”
Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)
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“You never know how useful even seemingly insignificant knowledge can be.”
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 212
“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.”
Harold Powers, "Language Models and Musical Analysis", p.48.
System of Transcendental Philosophy (1800)
Context: How both the objective world accommodates to presentations in us, and presentations in us to the objective world, is unintelligible unless between the two worlds, the ideal and the real, there exists a pre-determined harmony. But this latter is itself unthinkable unless the activity, whereby the objective world, is produced, is at bottom identical with that which expresses itself in volition, and vice versa.
“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”
Source: The Diaries of Adam and Eve