| The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. |
| A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens.If it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly.To scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it? |
| Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. |
| Are we not formed, as notes of music are,For one another, though dissimilar? |
| I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine. |
| Country music is three chords and the truth. |
| Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. |
| Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. |
| Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. |
| The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life... the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. |