Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Quotations
Music
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
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
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"
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 is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
