Sound is a means for understanding the world around us. We utilize it to determine our relationship with the physical environment within which we exist, to communicate our ideas and emotions between one another in a coherently discernible fashion, and to characterize the world in a possibly singly most human way. It is one of the greatest tools that we have to use as we traverse time, as we perceive it, so that we may properly orient ourselves in its passage.
Music is sound in the most human context possible. It is our audible cave paintings, at its best connecting deeply to the musician's and listener's firmly rooted understanding of this existence. It is shared, driven from our genetic and physical make-up all the way up to our day-by-day interactions with components of ourselves, each other, and the world we live in. It connects the sensory information of what we perceive to the non-physical realm of thought that we interpret this data within. And through this, music can inspire.