Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentio... — David Bowie

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

Author: David Bowie

Insight: There's something oddly spiritual about the moment a song clicks into place—when you finally hear something that articulates what you didn't have words for. Bowie captures that specific kind of reaching: the search itself is the point, not the destination. Whether you're hunting for a perfect melody, the right lyric, or just listening for that one album that makes sense of your current mood, you're doing something almost religious. You're trying to touch something real that lives just beyond language. The "unspeakable" part is especially true now. We're drowning in words—notifications, explanations, arguments—yet we're often more moved by a instrumental passage or a vocal harmony than by any sentence. Music exists in the gaps between what can be said. It's why people describe songs as "exactly how I was feeling" even when they can't explain why. That gap between emotion and words is where music lives, and searching for it means accepting you won't find it through thinking alone. You have to listen, experiment, fail, and listen more. The unmentionable becomes real only through the search itself, not through any final answer.

Source: 'David Bowie: The Last Interview' and Other Conversations