IS MUSIC THE BEST?

Zappa wasn’t the greatest musician. There were others who were greater, especially in earlier centuries. But this is not what this thread should deal with. I used the Zappa quote in order to just ask more generally: IS MUSIC THE BEST?

Music makes us feel good. Isn’t that a good argument?

Music moves humans of all cultures, in a way that doesn’t seem to happen with e.g. animals. Nobody really understands why listening to music - which, unlike sex or food, has no intrinsic value - can trigger such profoundly rewarding experiences.

Music is exquisitely emotionally evocative, which is why a touch of happy music makes even unrelated pictures seem more pleasant. In light of the above, then, we are led to the conclusion that the artifact of music should contain some distinctly human elements.

Music is a drug, and drugs are a medicine.

Us government used rock metal music on Arab terrorists as a torture method.

I guess they must have been wussies.

or higher standards

Muslim Michael Jackson. It is said that Michael Jackson converted to Islam before he died. Perhaps, this was his (her?) final plastic surgery.
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Music has its extreme sides too, hasn’t it?

Ode an die Freude, the European Anthem.

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That one isn’t the best.

Johann Sebastian Bach’s music is the best.

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Maybe. The topic is: IS MUSIC THE BEST?

Music in general.

Also, music is therapy.

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” - Ludwig v. Beethoven.

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Also, dolphins are good for therapy:

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It depends on what music it is, where and when it is played, how all those circumstances are … and so on and so forth.

Or that the artifact of humanity should contain some distinctly musical elements.
In any case, music is indeed the best.

Yes. Music is the best. :obscene-smokingred:

To one who cannot see, it very well may be, despite the other technology which we have today.
But then again, as with most or everything, it just depends on the individual.

I also intuit that it, music, IS capable of soothing the savage beast, depending on the music.

Something like the first below. Amazingly haunting and profound to me.

But would a savage beast actually be soothed by something like it?

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I wonder what the below would do to the savage beast. Ah, just listen to it and to those wolves. Stirs my celtic blood indeed.

No, I am not calling the wolf savage. We humans are the savages.

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I wonder if something within our ancestral genes resonates to particular music from that country.

I could not honestly say what is the best to me - music or books. It just depends on what you resonate to and on “where you live at your core”.
But if I had to say something, it would be the music depending on which…mostly classical and slow jazz.

If you do not want your heart broken, do not listen or watch the below…

Oh, the Wolf! :sad-teareye: :sad-teareye: :sad-teareye: :sad-teareye:

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Music certainly opens the doors of perception.

On my bucket list is to someday hug a wolf.