What is true in music, according to R. H. Haweis, is equally true of
all intuitive processes:
To accompany well you must not only be a good musician, but you
must be mesmeric, sympathetic, intuitive. You must know what I
want before I tell you; you must feel which way my spirit sets,
for the motions of the soul are swift as an angel’s flight. I
can not pause in those quick and subtle transitions of emotion,
fancy, passion, to tell you a secret; if it is not yours
already, you are unworthy of it. Your finishing lessons in music
can do nothing for you. Your case is hopeless. You have not
enough music in you to know that you are a failure.
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