"Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens."

-- Maria Augusta von Trapp

"Music is the language of the spirit.  It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."

-- Kahlil Gibran

"If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing."

-- J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."

-- Robert Fripp

"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human.  Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe."

-- Douglas Adams