[Beecham admitted to Neville Cardus that he had made this up on the spur of the moment to satisfy an importunate journalist; he acknowledged that it was an oversimplification. (Neville Cardus: 'Sir Thomas Beecham, A Memoir', 1961)]
“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.”
“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”
Tom (As Narrator Scene One)
Source: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul.”
"The Death of Cuthullin"
The Poems of Ossian
“The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.”
The Fire of Drift-wood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“When words leave off, music begins.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 343
