“Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.”

“Music is like making love: either all or nothing.”

“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous”

“Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.”

“Ah music….a magic far beyond anything done here.”

“Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad”

“Music, the mosaic of the air”

“Music is the vernacular of the human soul”

“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”

“Where words fail, music speaks.”

“Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit.”

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”

“Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.”

“When I don’t like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely”