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
Quotations
Music
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
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
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over."
