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.
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
Without music life would be a mistake.
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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!
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
