The sole end and aim of all music should be nothing else but God's glory and pleasant recreation.

-- Johann Sebastian Bach

 

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

-- Berthold Auerbach

 

Where words fail, music speaks.

-- Hans Christian Anderson

 

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral and religious feelings.

-- Joseph Addison

 Music, the greatest good that mortals know,

And all of heaven we have below.

-- Joseph Addison