Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
“Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.”
“The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.”