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- I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Music at Night", 1931
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Conclusion, 1854
- 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.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
- The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
- Garth Brooks, Country Music
- Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
- Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
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