Brian Eno on Why Music Has an Emotional Appeal

“When you think about it, why does music have any emotional appeal at all? Why should something so unlike anything else in our experience—unlike, that is, any sound generated by the normal workings of the world—have an emotional impact? Perfume seems to have a similar directness, in that we are affected by it without really being able to articulate why; as opposed to stories, for example, where we have a clearer sense of what’s going on and why it might matter to us.” 

Brian Eno from “A Conversation with Brian Eno” by David Mitchell for The Believer

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