Lightlier move the minutes edged with music.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 

For a day and a night Love sang to us, played with us,
Folded us round from the dark and the light;
And our hearts were fulfilled with the music he made with us.

-- A. C. Swinburne

 

. . . but the highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

-- Leopold Stokowski

 

The habit of listening to music and of dreaming about it predisposes one to love.

-- Stendhal

 

The fine art which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.  Where there is beautiful music it is difficult for discontent to to live.

-- Herbert Spencer

 

Discord ofte in music makes the sweeter lay.

--  Edward Spencer

 

Music:  the paradise of the ears.

-- Somaize

 

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

He is made one with Nature:  there is heard
His voice in all her music, from the moan
Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain-tops that freeze;
Bow themselves, when he did sing.

-- William Shakespeare

 

Here we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night
Became the touches of sweet harmony.

-- William Shakespeare

 

Preposterous ass, that never read so far
To know the cause why music was ordain'd:
Was it not to refresh the mind of man,
After his studies or his usual pain?

-- William Shakespeare

 

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, 
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

-- William Shakespeare

 

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, 
The appetite may sicken, and so die.

 -- William Shakespeare