MUSIC: A DEEP-SEATED PART OF MY EXISTENCE

Okay, I admit it... Music has always been a deep-seated part of my existence.  I suppose being raised by an opera conductor father, and a mother who was a violinist/music professor, etc. played a part in my relationship to melody.  In truth, I cannot understand anyone who doesn't love music at some level.  I have known a few who were not overly impressed.  In fact, my ex mother-in-law did not like any music of any kind.  She said it made her nervous.  Odd.

Shakespeare said:

The man that hath no music within himself
nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
the notions of his spirit are as dull as night
and his affections dark as Erebus:
let no such man be trusted.

...and Saint-Saëns said:

There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.

...and finally, Hunter S. Thompson said:

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

Well, thankfully, I am not in the music business, although my son is, and he can testify to the above Thompson quote.

At any rate, I am having a moment, somewhere between Mozart and Diana Krall...I am lost in the rapture of melody!