Thursday, September 8, 2011

Schopenhauer quotes Voltaire saying, "The secret of being dull and tedious consists in our saying everything" (99). I think this is a great point applied to music whose message is felt without the abstraction of words to define our inner landscape. Adams' slows this song way down, prolonging the impact of each note with his voice as well as the use of space between lyrics. In this rendition of Oasis' song, the lyrics seem to disintegrate into the music, leaving only that intuitive perception, "Adapted to what the tones say in their universal language of the heart, a language that is without picture or image"(123).

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