Take a music-bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.

No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?

And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.

Music quickens time, she quickens us to the finest enjoyment of time.

A bad performance haunts the artist like a nightmare for days and days, and the memory of it is erased only by a good performance.

You may read music as fluently as you read a newspaper, but it does not make an artist of you, and I count it just as clever to be a good stenographer.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.

Jazz may be thought of as a current that bubbled forth from a spring in the slums of New Orleans to become the main spring of the twentieth century.

We must have recourse to the rules [of music] only when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.