The six types of song that have shaped human nature—friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion, and love… — Daniel Levitin

The point of art is to emphasize some elements at the expense of others.

We may have had music before we had a word for it.

Creative brains became more attractive during centuries of sexual selection because they could solve a wider range of unanticipatable problems. ...Humans who just happened to find creativity attractive may have hitched their reproductive wagons to musicians and artists, and... conferred a survival advantage on their offspring.