Wrong, bearded bruce. Unlike people like Bill or Alice, my personal knowledge -- please notice, I did not say opinion, or belief, but knowledge -- of this subject is rooted in a lifetime of ongoing personal investigation (ie formal and informal studies PLUS practical application of astrology and psychology) ; but most importantly, the direct first-hand observations and experience these efforts produce.

If I really wanted to know what music is or what it could possibly do for me, I wouldn't seek out some philospher's oh-so-logically-pristine opinions about music -- unless that philosopher were also a musician. Nor would I seek out some scientist's explanation, or I'd surely be disappointed at the endless hypotheses and descriptions and theories re, say, sound waves and the effect of same on my neurotransmitters.

Very interesting and all, but ..... if I really wanted to know, to experience what music is all about, I'd just go get me an instrument - maybe at some point a teacher and some books too -- and play it. Check it out for myself. That's the only way to discover, for myself, what the art, science, and language of music are really all about.