Remixelek

- On Music...

"Tolstoy was right, music is the greatest tempter, the most dangerous seducer. The mind becomes narrow when it hears music. The music is meaningless. It does not seek to understand like the mind, but to disperse, to agitate, to disarm, to seduce, to touch the secret and the painful in us, to reveal what we have so carefully hidden from ourselves, disciplined by all means - it is like the wild waters of spring, it disturbs the carefully parcelled, cultivated and worked, regulated and disciplined areas of the mind. Where music flows out, the laws of reason no longer apply. In the delight that music gives, the sick feelings of the death wish's foul annihilation are rippling. The music is offensive. A man who has devoted his life to knowledge, discipline and reality, let him defend himself against the music, shut his ears. Life is much poorer without music. But more human, more tough, more sad, more intelligent."

...Sándor Márai -