Well, I hope that we can manifest that [Arnold] Schönberg thing, “Every look can become a poem, every sigh might become a novel,” because that’s what happens with singing and music, just a note can become your life.

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Music, not philosophy, expresses the innermost nature of all life and existence.

from The World as Will and Representation by Schopenhauer