Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Quotations
Music
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
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"
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
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 does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
