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“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.”

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”

“They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”