| And we perceive some patterns as objects but fundamentally it’s patterns and
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| what you want is all the patterns of the world to interact harmoniously in
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| something where every element is related intelligibly to every other element
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| And I think that when your life is in harmony that you can feel that
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| When you’re dancing to beautiful music you’re acting that out
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| The music is the music of the spheres and you’re participating in the
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| patterning of your being in accordance with that structure and that gives you
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| an intimation of transcendence
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| Music is everything
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| Music is everything
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| Music is everything
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| Music is everything
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| It’s not criticisable
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| That’s the thing that’s so lovely about it
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| Is even as our society has become more cynical and more self-destructive and
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| more deconstructionist
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| The power of music has in fact grown because it speaks to that eternal harmony
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| and the reality of that eternal harmony in a way that that mere intellect
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| cannot deny
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| And I mean I was always amused
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| I went to this show
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| The Ramones
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| A punk band from New York
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| It was the loudest concert I’d ever heard by by a good factor of ten
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| My ears rang for like three days afterward
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| There were all these like nihilistic punk rockers all crammed into this theatre
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| And below me there was a mosh pit
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| It was like ants on a frying pan
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| And they were just smashing into each other and throwing people around up above
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| them
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| And it was quite rough and they were all having this beautifully transcendent
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| musical experience
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| Which belied all of their nihilism and they absolutely thrived on it
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| It was like, and even the lyrics were harsh and nihilist
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| But it didn’t matter because the music in its rough form was something that
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| united them in this sense of this like
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| Patterned beauty and brought them together
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| And so exposure to music, people die without music
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| It’s like
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| Music is everything
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| Music is everything
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| Music is everything
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| Music is everything |