Fritjof Capra, foreword to The World Is Sound: Nada Brahma: Music and the Landscape of Consciousness

 

“It has been said since ancient times that the nature of reality is much closer to music than to a machine, and this is confirmed by many discoveries in modern science. The notes, in the intervals, frequencies, and rhythms. When a string is set vibrating we hear not only a single tone but also its overtones—an entire scale is sounded. Thus each note involves all the others, just as each subatomic particle involves all the others, according to current ideas in particle physics.”essence of a melody does not lie in its notes; it lies in the relationships between the notes