There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Quotations
Music
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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 produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
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
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
