#u

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#music

And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#musical #love

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#reading #music

....Everyone deserves a chance to fly! ↗

— Stephen Schwartz

#music

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#awesome #chesney #country #hot #kenny

Don't be afraid, just play the music. ↗

— Charlie Parker

#music

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music ↗

— William Edgar Stafford

#music

Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century. ↗

— Helen Thompson

#power-of-music #music

Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action. ↗

— Leonard Koren

#communication #rhetoric #art

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.) ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#criticism #literature #reading #art