Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
“In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.”
“But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.”