In a message dated 7/26/99 7:10:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, twichell@mail.hartford.edu writes: > I (as a flutist) think that one of the reasonsI play music is because I > sometimes feel so hopelessly inadequate with words, especially trying to > describe emotion or beauty, despite my acceptable college boards and the > fact that my "other major" (besides flute) is English. I believe that > music expresses things that words never can. I couldn't have said this better myself. When I'm playing my instrument, either my flute, a horn, or in the sideline at Corps, or singing, I can lose myself in the music and not worry about anything else. Someone once told me that poetry are your emotions on paper. Music is almost the same thing. :) ~Trish Persuasion Winter Guard 98-? Hawthorne Caballeros 98-? "If God came down here with a box that held the meaning to life in it, I'd like to see just two words: The Music. That would be neat . . ." Garth Brooks "Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve and Mercy is when God doesn't give us what we do deserve . . ." Dan Roberts Quotation Ring Mailing List --------------------------- No attachments, spam or unrelated advertisements, please! To unsubscribe, send mail to <Majordomo@1-host.com> with the command: unsubscribe quotation-ring-l YourEmailAddress in the body of your email message. Quotation Ring URL: http://www.gunnar.cc/webring/quotes.html