Music is our fourth great material want -- first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music.

-- Christian Nestell Bover

 

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

-- Josh Billings

 

Music . . . can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

-- Leonard Bernstein

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

-- Ludwig van Beethoven