Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Quotations
Music
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
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"
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
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
