To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.

-- Yehudi Menuhin

 

Music makes more people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

-- Martin Luther

 

I am not satisfied with any man who despises music.  For music is a gift of God.

-- Martin Luther

 

[Music]  The art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

-- Martin Luther

 

Music is the universal language of mankind.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Show me the home wherein music dwells, and I shall show you a happy, peaceful, and contented home.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Yea, music is the Prophet's art

Among the gifts that God hath sent,

One of the most magnificent!

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Music itself is the purest expression of emotion.  To me, emotion is the guts of the theatre.  With music you can say in one moment what an author would take a whole scene to tell you in a drama.

-- Joshua Logan

 

There's sure no passion in the human soul,

But finds its food in music.

-- George Lillo

 

Music is love in search of a word.

-- Sidney Lanier

 

Music is God's best gift to man, the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to heaven.

-- Walter Savage Landor

 

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard

     Are sweeter; Therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;

Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, 

     Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.

-- John Keats

 

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

-- Aldous Huxley

 

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

-- Leigh Hunt

 

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

-- Victor Hugo

 

Music is making manifest to our dull ears the divine harmony of the universe, and through music, we read the universal.

-- Elbert Hubbard

 

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons.  You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. 

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

When words leave off, music begins. 

-- Heinrich Heine

 

Emotion, not thought, is the sphere of music. 

-- Rev. Hugh Reginald Haweis

 

Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

-- Johann von Goethe

 

Never did Mozart write for eternity, and it is for precisely that reason that much of what he wrote is for eternity.

-- Albert Einstein

 

Music, in the works of its greatest masters, is more marvelous, more mysterious, than poetry.

-- H. Giles

 

You are the music while the music lasts.

-- T. S. Eliot