"At about the age of six or seven, I realized that of all the invisible powers the one
I was destined to be most strongly affected and dominated by was music.
From that moment on,I had a world of my own, a sanctuary and a heaven
that no one could take away from me. Oh, music! A melody occurs to you;
you sing it silently, inwardly only; you steep your being in it;it takes posses
sion of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all that is fortuitous, evil, coarse and sad in you; it brings the world
into harmony with you, it makes burdens light and gives wings to depressed spirits. "
Herman Hesse (German poet)
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