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“Didn’t yoy feel triumphant? Now we can really understand what the meaning of music is. It’s the way it makes you feel when you hear it. Finally, we’ve taken that last giant step. And we’re there. We know what music means now. And we don’t have to know a lot of stuff about sharps and flats and chords and all that business in order to understand music if it tells us something.  And the most wonderful thing of all is that there’s no limit to the different kinds of feelings music can make you have. And some of those fellings are so special and so deep, that they can’t even be described in words.  You see, we can’t always name the things we feel. Sometimes we can. We can say we feel joy, pleasure, peacefulness, whatever, love, hate. But every once in a while, we have feelings that are so deep and so special that we have no words for them. And that’s where music is so marvelous, because music names them for us, only in notes instead of words.  It’s all in the way music moves. You must never forget that music is movement, always going somewhere, shifting and changing and flowing from one note to another. And that movement can tell us more about the way we feel than a million words can.“ Cate Blanchett never cease to amaze me.