Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Musica es bonita

Hola, mi familia,

Estoy a hablar espanol (well, I am trying to learn spanish and maybe even speak it)

Here is an amazing video from Sigur Ros (Jonsi is the lead singer of them. Dad, I gave you a CD of thier music for christmas one year.) The video features The Perlan Theatre Group, a dance/theatre troupe of mentally retarded/developmentally disabled people. The troupe is based in the Icelandic city of Reykjavik.

The video opens with the following quotes:
Without music, life would be a mistake - Nietzsche
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness - Lawrence Durrell
Music is the shorthand of emotion - Leo Tolstoy
Music expresses that which can not be said on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo
Music is a moral law.It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaeity to life and to everything. - Plato
A painter paints pictures on canvas, but musicians paint their pictures on silence. - Leopold Stokowski
See deep enough and you see musically: the heart of nature everywhere being music. - Thomas Carlyle
Music can name the un-nameable, communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein
In the end, I think of music as the saving grace of all of humanity. - Henry Miller
Music is well said to be the speech of angels, in fact nothing allowed among the utterances to man is said to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. - Thomas Carlyle

Click here for the AMAZING video

1 comment:

Charles Potatohead said...

What great quotes - thanks busy lady!!!