Day 3 - When words fail, music speaks

Ah music!! The love of my life!! Those who know me, know that I live and die for music, live, on my iPod, in the car, at work, at home!! Ah, though I must admit, my favorite place to listen to music, is laying on my beach chair, the gorgeous almost surreal Waikiki sun in the air, the sand swirled in and amidst my toes. The volume on my iPod just high enough to hear the music, so that the sound of the surf, and that happy buzz of sound that you really only hear in places such as beaches, is not blocked out.

Ah but I digress! And as I am tired tonight and wish to head to bed with my music in tow, I leave you with some quotes. Which for music were very hard to pick, it was like I was a child going through all these new toys after Christmas deciding which ones to play with first and there were so many good ones that you just couldn't pick and would be wracked with indecision, finally to pick one and wish you had started playing with another one first because well there were so many good things??

Well this is how reading about music (and listening to it at times) feels for me. So many good quotes that resonate so well within, but I put the blindfold on, spun around 3 times and picked and here they are (*ahem* drumroll please .....)


"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception." (When asked about his theory of relativity) - Albert Einstein

Music is the hardest kind of art. It doesn't hang up on a wall and wait to be stared at and enjoyed by passersby. It's communication. It's hours and hours being put into a work of art that may only last, in reality, for a few moments...but if done well, and truly appreciated, it lasts in our hearts forever. That's art. Speaking with your heart to the hearts of others. ~Mr. Dan Romano

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful." ~ Plato

AND THE TRUEST OF ALL: "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Red Auerbach