Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Quotations
Music
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
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
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
