Music is the universal language of mankind.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
--William Wordsworth
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
--Amiel\
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
--Aldous Huxley
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
--Thomas Beecham
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
--Lord Erskine
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
--Horace
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
--Thomas Carlyle