Acoustics Quote by Marshall McLuhan

“Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

— Cornel West

“wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of…

— Anthony Doerr

At moments of acute joy or sorrow, men and women throughout history have sung or reached for musical instruments to express the inexpressible. When…

— Stephen Hough

“Reality has always attracted me like a magnet, tortured and hypnotized me, and I wanted to capture it on paper. So I immediately appropriated…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“What is so frightening about [writing]? I still don't know. Perhaps it's the horrible knowledge that no matter how well you write, the resultant…

— Brenda Miller

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space…

— Lois Lowry

Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest…

— Cornel West

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

— Arthur Rimbaud

I found music when I was very dark. I felt unheard, with inner dialogues that I didn't know how to express.

— Banks

“The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and…

— Cesare Pavese

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

— Anonymous