Orpheus by John Woodrow Kelley
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"Music washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life."
~Berthold Auerbach
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“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt”
~Immanuel Kant
(Critique of Pure Reason)
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“Sublimely mysterious and immeasurably powerful,
is the stewardship that the sound of music
can have over the soul.”
~Tracey Bond
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“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes.
"A magic beyond all we do here!”
~J.K. Rowling
(Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
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"Music is the closest we'll ever get
to heaven on this earth."
~unknown