This quote gives reason as to the value in exploring music...FROM: book - Music and the Politics of Culture - essay by Ken Hirschop, pg.307

"For Bloch, as for others before him in the German philosophical tradition - notable Schopenhauer and Nietzche - music was at once the most humanly revealing form of art and the form most resistant to description or analysis in conceptual terms....Thus music was the truth to which philosophy aspired but which could never reach the point of articulate understanding since language itself, and philospohical language in particular, dealt only in the concepts or abstract figures of thought."