Creating Beauty Through Music: Finding Hope in Hard Times

12 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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So we make things that are painful beautiful. So I would hope that the world that I create in pieces is so beautiful that it takes out of our— I mean, it's not only that, because I mean, music can be savored when you're happy, but it's, uh, it has got a special role when life is hard. And so I would like my music to be listened to so that when people feel really that they have difficult time, that they listen to Mozart better, but also mine in the same sense, no different, sort of that it gives a feel of— that's when I say that I want to create beauty start, it's not beauty in terms of it's just pretty, it's beauty in terms of in the Greek philosopher sense, that like beauty and moral, all these things are one thing. I think that's how I would turn it, even if, you know, it's not something that you think all the time for yourself, you just But when I write music— every time that I go on my work on my piece, I want to write something that is the most beautiful that I can possibly do, uh, and that has got no vulgarity whatsoever, that it's all that I give, all that I could, to the maximum of my ability.
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