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"Going slow is a fantastic way to bring on a kind of trance."
-Ben Ratliff p.32
Ratliff explains how slow music, or the slowing of music, creates a sort of warped sense of time and/or reality where time itself almost seems to stand still. This creates an imagery in slow music of slow body movements almost in a sedative way that sort of hides a deeper meaning that you have to slow down yourself in order to find or figure it out.

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My Funny Valentine by Chet Baker is slowed down much more than other covers, and this gives it an almost mysterious quality that requires active listening.

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Music can, I think, take many forms; for instance, music can exist without humans listening; when birds sing, cicadas and crickets chirp, or when waves crash on a beach. These will exist without humans and often do, but when we listen to such sounds they appear almost musical. As we hear such sounds in nature we often associate it with something else, cicadas chirping might sound like summer nights, waves crashing might sound like sunny afternoons at the beach, and birds chirping sounds like the essence of nature. These elements exist without human construction yet we associate such musicality and beauty to them, and this gives way to the possibility that we attach sentimentality and emotions to the music we create and listen to ourselves. There might be an aesthetically pleasing quality to music that we feel intensely towards, whether that be love or rage, but it’s only with the addition of previously held experiences and notions, consciously or unconsciously, that we project onto the music and allow it to transform into a deeper emotional experience. Even more than simply the instrumental composition of music, is the way in which a singer uses that preconception to amplify the music through how he or she performs it to listeners. Lyrics give the most straightforward story of whatever emotion is being expressed, Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah tells a haunting story of love and religion in such a way that no matter who covers the song, the same poignancy still stands out the most.

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"Giving more than you need is an act of transmission. So is exposing doubt through music, admitting that we don't have the answers to the plan, writing words embodying the lack of a plan, singing in a way that embodies those words."
-Ben Ratliff p. 55
Ratliff is saying that words are words are words are words, but it's when paired with the emotion in a singer's voice that transmission takes place and the listener can empathize and almost be transported to what the singer is trying to convey.

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Sandcastles by Beyoncé exemplifies the way artists can use emotion in their voice to such a capacity that it invokes empathy in the listener so that he or she may feel the same emotion that lies within the words of the artist.

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This gives a visual to the sound of what is typically known as nature.

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This gives a visual to the sound effects of ocean waves.