“If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term:  organization of sound.”

– John Cage –

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“Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ”

– Arnold Bennett –

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“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”

– Robert G. Ingersoll –

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“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. ”

– Alphonse de Lamartine –

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“There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleasedWith melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;Some chord in unison with what we hearIs touch’d within us, and the heart replies.”

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“When words leave off, music begins.”

– Heinrich Heine –

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“Truly to sing, that is a different breath.”

– Rainer Maria Rilke –

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“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”

– Leo Tolstoy –

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“There is no truer truth obtainableBy Man than comes of music.”

– Robert Browning –

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“What passion cannot music raise and quell! ”

– John Dryden –

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