"A painter paints pictures on canvas.  But musicians paint their pictures on silence."

-- Leopold Stokowski

"Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances."

-- Maya Angelou

"The only truth is music."

-- Jack Kerouac

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

"Life, he realized, was much like a song.  In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile."

-- Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song