On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:52:19 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, Bob
Engelhardt quickly quoth:

Larry Jaques wrote:
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
---- --Unknown

I've heard it attributed to Art Blakey. Slightly different: "Music
washes away the dust of everyday life."

He would know! (pretty good jazz.) I don't recall where I picked up
the other one, but I like it even better.

I was watching Kurt Russell in "Soldier" tonight and heard a song I
really liked. I tracked it down and was listening to it with chills up
my spine. Loreena McKennitt's "Night Ride Across the Caucasus". Wow!
They're a Celtic band with lots of other styles blended in. I'm going
to get this album.
http://www.quinlanroad.com/exploreth...kofsecrets.asp
From the linked page:
--snip--
"A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."

Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu's words are a good introduction to the
third album in a trilogy of musical travel documents that began with
The Visit. Recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World studios in England,
The Book Of Secrets was written and researched all over the world,
and, following its release in 1997, would go on to sell several
million copies around the globe.

The album features a cast of over two dozen musical collaborators, and
the eight songs contained therein, including North American hit single
“The Mummers’ Dance”, leads the listener on unexpected journeys.
Follow the music from ancient Byzantium to a puppet-maker's theatre in
Sicily, or from the rocky island of Skellig Michael once inhabited by
Irish monks in the Dark Ages to Venice and the journeys of Marco Polo,
or from the tragic narrative of “ The Highwayman” to the thunder of
hooves across the Caucasus and the echoes of Dante’ s words found,
unexpectedly, in a train journey across Siberia.
--snip--

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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
---- --Unknown