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Joseph Campbell

Love is a friendship set to music.

Music

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Joseph Campbell compares the harmony and rhythm found in music to the qualities that make a friendship deep and meaningful. He suggests that love takes the foundation of friendship and adds an emotional, expressive layer, much like how music adds feeling to sound.

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