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Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.

— Marcel Marceau

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To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.

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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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