There is no agent so powerful in giving us real rest as true music . . . It does for heart and mind, and also for the body, what sleep does for the body alone.

-- Auguste Gratry

 

Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.

-- Shakespeare

 

Music is the language of some other state, born of memory.  For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music?

-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

 

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences.  Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

-- Cicero