Centre Quote by Suhayl Saadi

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

— Oscar Hijuelos

“The fact indeed that music—like love, electricity and other elemental forces—cannot be defined is its special glory. It is a peculiar, mysterious power; [1]…

— Walter Raymond Spalding

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

— Twyla Tharp

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making…

— Philip K. Dick

Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of…

— Victor Hugo

Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Music is a potent energy force.

— John Seagall

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment –…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me of a…

— Bruno Walter

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate…

— Robert Genn

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

— George Santayana

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

— Leonard Bernstein