#power-of-music

"It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once."

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."

"If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal."

"Where words leave off, music begins."

"I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can."

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

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

"Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music."

"Music is an outburst of the soul."

"Ah, music,"he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!"

"A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good."

"Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul."

"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."