A few weeks ago, I saw a particularly moving concert from a songwriter/band I've listened to since high school. I just felt such an emotional connection, and could sense most of the audience did too. Sometimes I'll talk to a friend about a song and they'll say, "Yeah, that helped me get through some tough times." Music speaks to the soul.
I don't know how else to put it; music has the potential to hit very hard in just the right place. I'm mesmerized time and time again by the 'shiver down your spine' feeling some songs can provide. It's a revelatory experience.
We know music speaks the unspeakable (and sometimes more)-- these are merely quotes, but some of them might reveal for you a new perspective on music.
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”~Plato
"One good thing about music-- when it hits, you feel no pain."
"One good thing about music-- when it hits, you feel no pain."
~Bob Marley
"After silence, that which comes nearest
"After silence, that which comes nearest
to expressing the inexpressible is music."
~Aldous Huxley
~Aldous Huxley
“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently."~Nick Hornby
"Music is to the soul what words are to the mind." ~Modest Mouse
"Music is to the soul what words are to the mind." ~Modest Mouse
"Music is a higher revelation than all of wisdom and philosophy." ~Beethoven
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Pop music tells you everything's OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it." -Bono
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on." -John Keats
