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!
-Thomas Carlyle
Without music life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- Aldous Huxley
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.
- Plato