WHERE MUSIC IS AT HOME.Music achieves great power only among people who cannot or are not allowed to communicate. Its principle promoters are therefore princes who want little criticism (and little thought at all) to take place in their vicinity.Then next, societies which, under some repression or other (princely or religious), have to accustom themselves to silence, but therefore seek all the most powerful charms against emotional boredom (usually endless love affairs and endless songs);Thirdly, entire nations in which there exists no 'society', but for that reason all the more loners with an inclination to solitude, to half-obscure thoughts, and to respect for everything which can't be said.These are the true musical souls.(Friedrich Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow §167).