Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.
Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.10, Macmillan
