“As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you know all day sitting at work, eating, walking, etc., you have hundreds of feelings that can't be put into words. And that is why I think that in a sense music is the highest of the arts, because it really begins where the others leave off.”
C.S. Lewis
The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1: Family Letters, 1905-1931
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.”
S E Hinton
“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ”
Robert G. Ingersoll
“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”
Yip Harburg
“I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.”
William Faulkner
“I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.”
Hunter S. Thompson