Thoughts on Music

"After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that
I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my
own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for
one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense
of sorrows that have been hidden from one's tears. I can fancy a man
who led a perfectly commonplace life, hearing by chance some curious
piece of music, and suddenly discovering that his soul, without his
being conscious of it, had passed through terrible experiences, and
known fearful joys, or wild romantic loves, or great renunciations"

-- Oscar Wilde