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