| Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. |
| In music the passions enjoy themselves. |
| Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. |
| Music is an outburst of the soul. |
| Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. |
| Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. |
| The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet. |
| You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. |
| He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. |
| You are the music while the music lasts. |