Matter, Music and the Mind
"A rough sound was polished until it became a smoother sound which was polished until it became music."
Mark Strand, US poet laureate (1990)
"Music is the profoundest expression of nature. Music, the combiner, nothing more spiritual, nothing more sensuous, a god, yet completely human, advances, prevails, supplying in certain wants and quarters what nothing else could supply.
Walt Whitman
"Music is a laboratory for feeling and time whose mysterious power both eclipses and illuminates all the other arts."
Philosopher Susanne Langer
"Music is the best means we have of digesting time. It is the sound wave of the soul."
Igor Stravinsky
"Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts."
Susan Sontag
"God has given us music so that above al it can lead us upwards. Music unites all qualities: it can exalt us, divert us, cheer us up or break the heardest of hearts with the softest of is melancholy tones."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Music ... stands quite apart from all the other arts. It is the universal language."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"That is the quality which dance music has no other. It is as though some swift current of water swept you along with it. It is magic music."
Virginia Woolf
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."
Victor Hugo, poet
"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Huxley
"Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly. It needs no mediation.
Oliver Sacks
Celebrating music is celebrating life
..with one another..
No matter wherever or whenever you find it .. Music Matters.
Pat Locke, Maestro Muse
