Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
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.
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg:I have it in my pocket.
Music is what feelings sound like.
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.