This quote by Friedrich Nietzsche suggests that music has the special capability to evoke and reveal extreme emotions, or what he describes as "passions". It remains in the realm of music that these passions can be completely felt and taken pleasure in. Nietzsche believed that music transcended intellectual or reasonable thought, rather appealing directly to our inmost emotional states. By immersing ourselves in music and permitting ourselves to be carried away by its noise and rhythm, we have the ability to experience a type of catharsis, a release of feelings that can leave us feeling renewed and renewed. Music, for Nietzsche, is an effective force that moves us in manner ins which other art types can not.
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"
"Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising"
"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"
