Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. ~Ludwig Van Beethoven

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

If music be the food of love, play on.
~Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
~John Keats

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~Red Auerbach

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. ~Louis Armstrong

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~Gustav Mahler

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. ~Benjamin Disraeli

There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
~Lord Byron

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. ~Edward Elgar

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ~Charlie Parker

Play the music, not the instrument. ~Author Unknown

You are the music while the music lasts. ~T.S. Eliot

Music is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer

Music is an outburst of the soul. ~Frederick Delius

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ~Oscar Wilde

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased
With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
~William Cowper

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific. ~Aaron Copland

Music, when soft voices die
Vibrates in the memory -
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.                
~Lawrence Duncan

Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar?
~Percy Bysshe Shelley