Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Quotations
Music
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
