And that is why music provokes an excitement which it does not bring to a conclusion.

For instance, a military march is played; the soldier passes to the sound of this march, and the music is finished.

A dance is played; I have finished dancing, and the music is finished.

A mass is sung; I receive the sacrament, and again the music is finished.

But any other music provokes an excitement, and this excitement is not accompanied by the thing that needs properly to be done, and that is why music is so dangerous, and sometimes acts so frightfully.
"In China music is under the control of the State, and that is the way it ought to be.