"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness." - Lawrence Durrell
"Music is the shorthand of emotion" - Leo Tolstoy
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." - Victor Hugo
"Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the Universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good and just and beautiful." - Plato
"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence." -Leopold Stokowski
"If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music." - Thomas Carlyle
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." - Leonard Bernstein
"...in the end I think of music as saving grace for all humanity" - Henry Miller
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite." - Thomas Carlyle
