Arnold Bennett Quotes

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

Those who suffer profoundly are granted profound wisdom.

Sometimes a couple notes are worth a thousand words.

From the beginning, music has been the chosen way to express feelings that words alone can't.

I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably.

it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words

Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one of those present, a monk called Mahakasyapa, began to smile. He is said to have been the only one who had understood the sermon. According to legend, that smile (that is to say, realization) was handed down by twenty-eight successive masters and much later became the origin of Zen.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

All our souls are written in our eyes.

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

Life comes when you have knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, when you can see for real, touch, and feel for real, know for real. Then you are truly living.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.