Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Quotations
Music
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
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
