"Music is as immediate an objectification, and copy of the whole will as the world itself is, indeed as the ideas are, the multiplied phenomenon of which constitutes the world of individual things. Therefore, music is no means like the other arts, namely a copy of the ideas, but a copy of the will itself, the objectivity of which are the ideas. For this reason, the effect of music is so much more powerful and penetrating than that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow but the music of the essence."                         
- Arthur Schopenhauer