A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy.

There's only one way to sum up music: either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about with it; you just enjoy it.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of every-day life.

Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.

Music has Charms to soothe a savage Breast.

Roaming through the jungle of "oohs" and "ahs," searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivitv with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Where there's music there can be no evil.

Professional musicians sometimes like to give the impression that theirs is the best job of all in that they're being paid to do what they would be doing just for fun.