The music of this [other] dimension exists prior to our feelings, experiences or indeed any of our relationships with anything whatsoever. It is with this music that "our" lives begin and end, and with its sound we pass from the realm of individual existence [to] that of the infinite in each and every moment, usually without being in any way consciously aware of such a cycle. This music does not belong to any given civilization, every sound of it simultaneously contains and transcends all of the civilizations of all peoples, of all places, of all times.... The music being discussed here is not any man's creation, it is not even the creation of mankind as a whole, rather it is a gift to mankind. Perhaps we don't really "know" anything about its source, but if ever we hear it, even for a fraction of a second, we want only to go there.
-Ross Daly, notes to An-Ki