“Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I don't claim responsibility and don't hold any great truck with.”
David Gilmour
“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.”
E. Y. Harburg
“Let mortals beware of wordsFor with words we lieCan speak peaceWhen we mean warBut song is trueLet music for peaceBe the paradigmFor peace means changeAt the right time”
W. H. Auden
“All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of love, and feed his sacred flame.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.”
Albert Einstein
“Among mortals second thoughts are wisest”
Euripides
“If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal.”
Mark Helprin
