There's definitely comfort in music, more than any other art form. I do believe that music is the highest of all the art forms cause it just goes straight to the heart of the thingye,. You write about how you wondered why the great poets and philosophers and artists and musicians often had melancholic personalities. It's a kind of tendency to states of poignancy and sorrow and longing. An intense awareness of the way in which joy and sorrow are forever paired. We're never going to arrive therend there's something about us all being together in that state of exile that is the deepest bounding agent we have. That transcendente.
#1 New York Times best-selling author Susan Cain shares how a bittersweet, melancholic outlook makes emotional room for beauty, creativity, and love.