When words fail, music speaks.

I believe this quote exists for a reason. Adler and Doren in their book, How to read a book mentions that one of the reasons human beings disagree with each other is due to the complexity of the human nature.

“Men are creatures of passion and prejudice. The language they must use to communicate is an imperfect medium, clouded by emotion and colored by interest, as well as inadequately transparent for thought.”

Since language is an imperfect medium for conveying knowledge, it serves as a hindrance to communication.

I believe this is where art forms such as music come to the rescue where the words fail. Jason Silva of Shots of Awe explains this beautifully in his video.

"Music is the wallpaper of our minds" - Jamie Wheal Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=shotsofawe Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz. New episodes every Tuesday.

“Music is the wallpaper of our minds.”

— Jamie Wheal

“Music is proof that the human life is greater than it knows. It’s music’s capacity to communicate the ineffable, the inexpressible. It’s this urge to language that human beings have when crude words don’t work, we have to translate it into symphony.
And these temporary ecstasies that we instrument into existence need to be recorded and our innovations with recording music are even more transcendent. What started as etching grooves on an LP, patterning the sound, instantiating it into physical form so that it could be played back has evolved now into a world of binary digital information, ecstasies beamed from brain to brain, from someone’s heart to someone else’s. This is music.”

Clearly, when words fail, music speaks.

Also, read Art for Adults.

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