Where words fail, music speaks. — Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
Music Is the Can-opener
Music is the can-opener of the soul. – Henry Miller (1891-1980, novelist)
The Incarnation of Music
Mozart is the incarnation of music. — Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
The Universal Language
Music is the universal language of mankind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
The Speech of Angels
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. — Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
A Clarinet with A Cold
The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold. — Victor Borge (1909-2000)
Arithmetical Exercise of A Mind
Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
The Silence Between
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
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