Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Quotations
Music
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
