Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. 

-- Robert Browning

 

It is cruel . . . that music should be so beautiful.  It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain; of strength and freedom.  The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love.  The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

-- Benjamin Britten

 

For there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion. 

-- Sir Thomas Browne

 

God is its author, and not man; he laid the keynote of all harmonies . . . and he made us so that we could hear and understand.

-- John G. Brainard