| 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. |
| 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! |