If the King loves music, it is well with the land. -Mencius
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. -Leopold Stokowski
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -Berthold Auerbach
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! -Thomas Carlyle
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. -Gustav Mahler
Music is what feelings sound like. -Author Unknown
If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud. -Anonymous
I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. -H.A. Overstreet
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. -Henry David Thoreau
Music is the poetry of the air. -Richter
