Jenefer Robinson Quotes

#1. The undistracted experience of affects of just about any sort, when free of practical consequences, appears to have intrinsic appeal for many of us.

Jenefer Robinson

#2. Deep emotional response to music typically arises as a product of the most intense musical perception. It is generally in virtue of the recognition of emotions expressed in music, or of the emotion-laden gestures embodied in musical movement, that an emotional reaction occurs.

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#3. When we identify with music that we are perceiving - or perhaps better, with the person whom we imagine owns the emotions or emotional gestures we hear in the music - we share in and adopt these emotions as our own [...]. And so we end up feeling as, in imagination, the music does.

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#4. What we seem to perceive influences what we feel, and what we feel influences what we say we perceive

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#5. [L]anguage cannot match music's subtlety and preciseness of expression.

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