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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, ‘Is there a meaning to music?’ My answer would be, ‘Yes.’ And ‘Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?’ My answer to that would be, ‘No.’ —Aaron Copland
 

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I’ve wondered since childhood why some power lines have red orbs attached to them, and I’ve never gotten a satisfactory answer.  Today I listened to R.E.M. while shoveling snow.  Perhaps it was the honest labor that allowed me to hear, for the first time in nearly thirty years of hearing Driver 8, the lyric ”The power lines have floaters/So the airplanes won’t get snagged.”  Two mysteries solved at once in the quiet cold.

I’ve wondered since childhood why some power lines have red orbs attached to them, and I’ve never gotten a satisfactory answer.  Today I listened to R.E.M. while shoveling snow.  Perhaps it was the honest labor that allowed me to hear, for the first time in nearly thirty years of hearing Driver 8, the lyric ”The power lines have floaters/So the airplanes won’t get snagged.”  Two mysteries solved at once in the quiet cold.

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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. —Martin Luther King, Jr.