Saturday, February 13, 2010


What is music? . . . The very existence of music is wonderful, I might even say miraculous. Its domain is between thought and phenomena. Like a twilight mediator, it hovers between spirit and matter, related to both, yet differing from each. It is spirit, but it is spirit subject to the measurement of time. It is matter but it is matter than can dispense with space.

-- Heinrich Heine
(in Music Lovers Quotations,
edited by Helen Exley)

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