There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Quotations
Music
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
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
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
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
