Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
Interpretation
Music is a vessel that conveys emotions that are often found in silence.
This quote suggests that music serves as a medium through which we can experience complex emotions and thoughts that are otherwise unexpressed or difficult to articulate. The 'cup' symbolizes how music can contain and channel the profound and often silent feelings that we harbor within ourselves, allowing us to explore deeper aspects of our existence.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of the arts, one might use this quote to illustrate how music enriches our lives.
The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.
To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will. At that point the relationship between music and the musician is direct and reliable._x000D_ The relationship with music is always mysterious: when it works, you can never tell. You can never guarantee when it's going to work. You can only to put yourself in a place where it's more likely to happen.
[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.
What I perceive in science fiction is that it's more about how everything looks than what's going on, which I think is just difficult if you're an action character. I think they are about character, not about what it looks like.
For me, it's about making art that's not good but phenomenal. James Baldwin didn't want to just stay above the fray. Prince didn't think, 'I wonder what the industry is gonna think about 'Purple Rain.'' It's just, is this honest? Is this real? Does this move me? The rest is icing.
Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative.
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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