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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent


Victor Hugo

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go ...
STEVEN TYLER Music describes that which cannot be said, upon which it is impossible to be silent.
SAYING OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
VICTOR HUGO I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
BELA BARTOK I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing
BELA BARTOK There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by...
CLIFFORD TRUESDELL Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that acti...
MOTHER TERESA Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
VICTOR HUGO The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.
LORD KELVIN Kisses: Words which cannot be written.
NICOLE LOUISE DIVINO Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
W.W. STORY The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to pro...
AZAR NAFISI I speak as I must and cannot be silent.
JOANNE HARRIS Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put toget...
ELEANOR CATTON That which is crooked cannot be made straight and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
ECCLESIASTES We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
JOHN RUSKIN Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind ...
BEETHOVEN There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden.
L. RON HUBBARD Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind b...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.
CHEN GUANGCHENG Understanding requires words. Some things cannot be reduced to words. There are things that can only...
FRANK HERBERT Sometimes we want something so much that God will have us give it up so we can grow
(I CANNOT REMEMBER) Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special c...
EMILE DURKHEIM Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.
CONFUCIUS Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergo...
SIMON MAINWARING The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.
TECK FOO CHECK The settlements must be evacuated; the settlers cannot remain,
SHIMON PERES Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON "‎Tears can show heartfelt joys which words cannot express." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in wo...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool...
PHILIPPA GREGORY A writer cannot be defined in words.
REMAN BALA There's a part of music that cannot be reduced to words on a page. Even the records are just rough d...
DAVE MARSH The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
VICTOR HUGO No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
VICTOR HUGO Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
VICTOR HUGO While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
VICTOR HUGO Water is such a lifesaver into which we cannot breathe but without taking it into us we cannot live
MUNIA KHAN That which is cannot be true.
HERBERT MARCUSE person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect...
ROBERT GREENE I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express fee...
JANE CHEN Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
CONFUCIUS Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without
CONFUCIUS Jews cannot believe in J.C. and remain Jewish.
MARK POWERS Gratitude is not in words, but in the heart, which expresses it.
LUFFINA LOURDURAJ That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any o...
DORIS HUMPHREY Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot b...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot b...
GURDJIEFF Gratitude is not in the words but in the heart which expresses it.
LUFFINA LOURDURAJ That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
CORNELIUS TACITUS Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underpri...
AUNG SUU It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underpri...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI It is because we remain committed to our users. Another company cannot just essentially hack into ou...
ANN BRACKBILL That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cann...
DAN BROWN Rugged the breast that music cannot tame.
JOHN CODRINGTON BAMPFYLDE We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound comm...
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest
LOUIS MCHENRY HOWE That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You cannot give to God and His kingdom and remain poor
SUNDAY ADELAJA You can copy words, music, design but you cannot copy the creativity and consciousness of others bec...
RAMESH KAVDIA(RAMESH BABA) He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI Society cannot be insane, only the individual can. Because sanity is a label dictated by society's r...
LUIS ALBERTO ICAZA A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
NADINE GORDIMER Under these conditions I cannot remain party chairman.
FRANZ MUENTEFERING The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
PAUL HINDEMITH Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
JOHN ERSKINE Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
LORD ERSKINE Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing
JOHN ERSKINE I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of ...
PENN JILLETTE God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except b...
NORMAN ANGELL As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cann...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING I cannot put into words how happy I was to have had the opportunity to be around him as much as I wa...
OSSIE DAVIS [M]emory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot rema...
WILLIAM HARVEY Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be ...
NELSON MANDELA What passion cannot music raise and quell!
JOHN DRYDEN There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into...
JEANNETTE RANKIN As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cann...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING That in which cannot yet be comprehended, is intrinsically divine.
ANGEL ORTIZ The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and y...
JANE KENYON Technique can be taught, the energy and creativity that moulds into that pattern cannot
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