Music Is a Life-Affirming Experience

Musically gifted people have to go a lot closer to the edge of what's regarded as music before they encounter something that's impenetrable. I don't have to go that close to the edge before I run into music that's complicated enough so that I at least have to listen to it multiple, multiple times before I understand the patterning and the repetition. And in that meeting of the music with your understanding is that tremendous revelation of beauty and depth and harmony. It's more than that. It's life affirming. Which is a very strange thing about music as well. Even nihilistic people, deeply nihilistic people and hopeless people still they have to be pretty damn depressed before