8/30/2010

Language Inverted

     Many brilliant minds have spent their time contemplating, debating, and trying to understand music. Here is an interesting line of thought that's planted itself in my (of course brilliant) mind over the years. 

     I think we can all agree that music is its own language, it accomplishes precisely what Alexandre Dumas says it does: "Music expresses that which cannot be said, but upon which it is impossible to be silent." So what's the use in talking about something which expresses what cannot be said?