The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
“My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.”
“When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.”