"There's music in all things, if men had ears." (Byron.)
"Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners; she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable." (Luther)
"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman." (Beethoven)
"Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion." (Chateaubriand)
"Music is the art of thinking with sounds." (Jules Combarieu)
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." (Aldous Huxley)
"Music is the soul of language." (Max Heindel)
"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart." (Pablo Casals)
"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to heaven.” (Walter Savage Landor)
"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!" (J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997)
"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing." (John Erskine )
"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work." (Lewis Thomas, U.S. physician)
"Music’s a wonderful background for our thoughts, isn’t it?" (Max Nosseck, 1902–1972). "Through music the passions enjoy themselves." (Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher) "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines…" (Frank Zappa)
"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable." (Leonard Bernstein) "If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist." (Ned Rorem)
"In memory everything seems to happen to music." (Tennessee Williams
"Music is immediate, it goes on to become." W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–1973) "Music is well said to be the speech of angels." Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)