Music has an extraordinarily powerful ability to connect with and move a person. It reaches to the very depths of one's soul, and communicates in a manner that words are incapable of. It can excite, scare, sooth, comfort, reassure, make one laugh, or cry. These are feelings often shared by people across cultures. In that sense, music is a universal language of sorts — while its dialect may change from country to country, or from person to person, the general meaning is often understood regardless of where a person lives.
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I've been thinking a bit recently about art, and about beauty; about its purpose, and perhaps more specifically how we experience it, since I think we all experience it differently, and what appeals to one person won't to another. I think one of my intentions with Looking Glass of the Heart is, in one sense, to be an "appreciation of beauty" in all its forms, and the joy and excitement it brings to life.
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