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“Without music the heart beats a silent lonely rhythm. Without song the soul is but an empty shallow well.”

— Elizabeth Good

“Little notes of music trembled in hesitation, and burst, and rolled in quick, fine waves, like the thin, clear ringing of glass. Little notes…

— Ayn Rand

“The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could…

— Jake Vander Ark

“The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation”

— John Ashbery

Anyone who's ever read the lyrics of an already cherished song has most likely encountered that hollow sensation of something missing, the absence of…

— Jonathan Miles

“It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was…

— Virginia Woolf

“A great musician once told me that one should never play a single note without hearing it, feeling that it is true, thinking it…

— Brenda Ueland

“There isn't music without rhythm; have a soul that won't leave your lips without a song.”

— Elizabeth Vongsaravanh

“The notes burst from her fingers, staggering at first, but then more confidently as the emotion in the music took over. It was a…

— Sarah J. Maas

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of…

— James Weldon Johnson

“Happily there seemed to be an actual human choosing songs with abandoned disconnect.”

— Patti Smith

“Their silence was not the result of boredom or apathy, nor were they quiet because it was expected of them or through fear of…

— E.R. Braithwaite