"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony." -Benjamin Britten

"Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with.

Someone finally understood you.

This is what music is about."

- Gerard Way, My Chemical Romance

Music is said to be the speech of angels;

in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed

to man is felt to be so divine.

It brings us near to the infinite.

— Thomas Carlyle