Art is intertwined with humanity, with all its flawed dimensions, and the two cannot be separated. In the making of art, there is family, there are friends and collaborators, there is both fragility and permanence, and there is the passage of time. And there is physicality.
This further shows why people didn't like this ad and how the author who wrote this has a personal attachment to music. This could mean that other musicians would be upset, but non-musicians would care a bit less.
It can replace them all. You can make your music with it. You can paint with it. You can play games on it. You can take your photos with it.
The hydrolic press materials seem to disappear after being crushed and turn into the iPad, this quote that apple implies can offend musicians because it makes music seem easy. The author of this having a connection to music could be one reason they don't like it. This quote could be interpreted that the good memories people have with music, like the author, could be replaced with an ipad. Making those experiences seem easily replaceable.
Playing the variations in her mind: the ways to give Aladdin back his world, his palace, his princess, his everything.
This is her way of surviving, she needs to think of these things or she will die. The better she can change it the better chance she has of surviving.
She thinks, What if you hid a man in there?
During her day to day life she sees things that intrigue her and she gets stories from them and they build in her head. When the end says "We save our lives in such unlikely ways" they are talking about how she uses creativity and her daily life to make stories just to keep her head.
Do not look back.
This ties into the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, both of these stories are about trust. In this poem they say trust a lot, what to trust and what not to trust. In Hadestown they needed to trust each other, while in this the person has to trust the instructions.
Can rest his weary bones The weight of the world All falls away
They are no longer with the world so they don't have any more ties or duties.
Safe from all harm
This is what they all wanted, they wanted to be safe and live a carefree life.
Farewell To all the earthly remain
She is saying goodbye to all of the things on earth because she is leaving them and going with Hades.