Music: Since The Beginning

"Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul."… Plato. Greek philosopher. He wrote that before modern music, before experimentation with different musical genres. I’m here today to convince you that music stirs and evokes inside of us powerful emotions, and therefore shapes history. Music evokes pleasurable limbic states, which result in emotional responses, the brain having its emotional systems triggered off by pleasurable sounds. That’s the physical reason. …

…hinge of history. Depending on which way music turns, history could very well follow it, but the main importance of music relates back to us as humans – it changes us. Think back to a time when you heard a tune that changed how you feel, expressed what you couldn’t. As long as you can remember that, then I don’t have to persuade you that this is true. You’ve already done that yourself.