“Many people say that it is beauty alone that draws them to music. But great music brings us even more. By providing the brain with an artificial environment, and forcing it through that environment in controlled ways, music imparts the means of experiencing relations far deeper than those we encounter in our everyday lives. When music is written with genius, every event is carefully selected to build the substructure for exceptionally deep relations. No resource is wasted, no distractions are allowed. Thus, however briefly, we attain a greater grasp of the world (or at least a small part of it), as if rising from the ground to look down upon the confining maze of ordinary existence.”
Robert Jordain, Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination
Source: Robert Jordain, Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination http://mymusicthing.com/music-the-heart-of-human-nature-or-auditory-cheescake-part-2/
