Music is the nearest at hand, the most orderly, the most delicate, and the most perfect, of all bodily pleasures.

-- John Ruskin

 

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

-- Ned Rorem

 

Music is for certain among us, more than a pleasure; it is a necessity. 

-- Romain Rolland

 

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

-- Jean Paul Richter