"She music, at once, immediately brings me to the state of mind, which was the one who wrote the music. I merge with him soul and with it transported back from one state to another, but why should I do it, I do not know."

L.N. Tolstoy "The Kreutzer Sonata" 

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Do not shoot the pianist - he does everything he can. 

Oscar Wilde

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Music is a revelation higher than wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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Words sometimes need music, but music needs nothing.
Edvard Grieg