Music is God's best gift to man, the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to heaven.

-- Walter Savage Landor

 

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard

     Are sweeter; Therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;

Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, 

     Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.

-- John Keats

 

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

-- Aldous Huxley

 

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

-- Leigh Hunt

 

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

-- Victor Hugo

 

Music is making manifest to our dull ears the divine harmony of the universe, and through music, we read the universal.

-- Elbert Hubbard

 

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons.  You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. 

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

When words leave off, music begins. 

-- Heinrich Heine

 

Emotion, not thought, is the sphere of music. 

-- Rev. Hugh Reginald Haweis

 

Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

-- Johann von Goethe

 

Never did Mozart write for eternity, and it is for precisely that reason that much of what he wrote is for eternity.

-- Albert Einstein

 

Music, in the works of its greatest masters, is more marvelous, more mysterious, than poetry.

-- H. Giles

 

You are the music while the music lasts.

-- T. S. Eliot