QotD: "If man is ever to fulfil the mission he undertook at the very start -- when he first began to philosophise, as a Greek, and evolved the slogan 'Know thyself' -- he will have to understand his subconscious self; and the most articulate language of the subconscious is music."

"One whole side of our culture is impoverished, since we deny ourselves the possibility of enlarging our understanding of human experience by a specifically musical view of it. After all, if man is ever to fulfil the mission he undertook at the very start -- when he first began to philosophise, as a Greek, and evolved the slogan 'Know thyself' -- he will have to understand his [sub]conscious self; and the most articulate language of the [sub]conscious is music." 

        ~ musicologist Deryck Cooke, in the introduction to his book The Language of Music

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