“It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever unuttered and unutterable; it feeds that deep, ineradicable instinct within us of which all art is only the reverberated echo, that craving to express, through the medium of the senses, the spiritual and eternal realities which underlie them.” ArtRealitySpiritualMusicForeverEternalArt IsInstinctSensesMediumsAnalysisEchoesCraving Author:Hugh Reginald Haweis
“The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly imagine the sacred bridge of liberty kept by a more stalwart trio than Schubert the Armorer, Chopin the Refiner, and Liszt the Thunderer.” CausesPowerfulLibertyMusicImagineSacredBridgesElsewhereAdversariesTriumphantTriosSchubertStalwart Book:Music and morals Source: Music and morals
“The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.” WorldArtSelfConsciousnessMusicModernCivilizationComplexesIntenseRepresentativesModern WorldSelf Consciousness Book:Music and morals Source: Music and morals
“Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.” EndsRealizingPoorSecretEmotionMusicStrangeMusic IsRealmsInterpreter Author:Hugh Reginald Haweis
