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

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

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

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.