What is music anyway?

Playing music this way becomes communion with the unseen.

“I think a lot of it is very sort of strangely abstract and supernatural. You have no idea where it’s coming from. It just sort of manifests itself as a melody, or as a chord progression, or as some kind of weird tones in intervals. And you hear them and immediately your heart begins to change and you feel like, wow, I think that I’m tapping into something important, and something really big — but you have no idea what it is. And then I think the songwriting process, if you’re going to scrutinize it, is about sort of shaping that and observing that sacred moment and getting to know it.”

–SUFJAN STEVENS
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