These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge. (Claude Lévi-Strauss)

These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

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