Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Quotations
Music
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
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
You have to take a deep breath and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play, allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.
-Kelly White
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
