Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Quotations
Music
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
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 expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
