There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Quotations
Music
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
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
