Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

-- Johann Sebastian Bach

 

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

-- Mark Helprin

 

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

-- George Eliot

 

Music is the great uniter.  An incredible force.  Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

-- Sarah Dessen

 

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

-- Alphonse de Lamartine