Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Quotations
Music
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
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"
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
