on music...

"that music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning, yet   long untaught i did not hear,

but now the chorus I hear and am elated,

a tenor, strong, ascending with power and health, with glad notes of daybreak i hear,

a soprano at intervals sailing buoyantly over the tops of
immense waves,

a transparent base shuddering lusciously under and through the universe,

the triumphant tutti, the funeral wailings with sweet flutes and violins, all these i fill myself with,
i hear not the volumes of sound merely, i am moved by the   exquisite meanings,

i listen to the different voices winding in and out, striving, contending with fiery vehemence to excel each other in emotion;

i do not think the performers know themselves - but now i think begin to know them."

Walt Whitman