Music
"How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our tear, our highest aspiration?"
- Jane Swan
"One of the truly magical things about music and art in general, is the way it transcends language and cultural barriers and embodies universal truths."
- Claire Johnson
"Music is such a good way to resist. It keeps you strong, it has dignity."
- Amy Ray
"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."
- Charlie Parker
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressable is music."
- Aldous Huxley
"It takes wisdom to understand wisdom: for what is music if the audience is deaf?"
- Walter Lippman
"i'm actually kinda amazed at the power music has over my feelings about myself, my sense of peace, how lyrics can help me work out ideas and feelings; music makes me a whole person and without it, i'd just be a fraction of who i am now."
- Therese Leung
"To those who understand music, they know that music does not come from your mouth. The only reason it comes from there is that it has to get out from somewhere. Anyway, music is sung by your heart and your soul and it is felt by all those who really understand and love it."
- a man at a homeless shelter
"who needs drugs? I'm overdosing on life as it is... music is a most powerful dope, and the best part is, I remember it all!"
- Arjuna Greist
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more."
- William Wordsworth
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
- Red Auerbach
"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."
- Billy Joel
"Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs"
- Friedrich Nietzsche
