The spiritual and emotional aspects of art are perhaps their most important qualities. — 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.

Music... is... a core element of our species, an activity that paved the way for more complex behaviors such as language, large-scale cooperative undertakings, and the passing down of important information from one generation to the next.