"Without music, life would be a mistake."
"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness""Music is the shorthand of emotion."
"Music expresses that which cannot be said on which it is impossible to be silent."
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicans paint their pictures on silence."
"See deep enough, and you see musically: the heart of nature being everywhere music."
"Music can name the un-nameable and communicate the unknowable."
"In the end I think of music as saving grace for all humanity."
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels: in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite."