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13 03 2007

Posted by: musicquotes, in Counting, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Music, Pleasure, Unconscious

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. ~Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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