It's also the 250th birthday of Mozart. So in his honor I post this wonderful quote from "Red" (played by Morgan Freeman) in one of the greatest films ever, "The Shawshank Redemption."
On Mozart's piece "Duettino-Sull'aria" from Act III of The Marriage Of Figaro
"I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singin' about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I like to think they were singin' about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared, higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away. And for the briefest of moments, every last man at Shawshank felt free."
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