A painter paints pictures on canvas.  But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

-- Leopold Stokowski

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

-- Confucius

We know an age more vividly through its music than through its historians.

-- Rosanne Ambrose-Brown

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

-- Gustav Mahler