“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.”