Music is the true universal speech of mankind.

-- Weber

 

Music is a language directed to the passions; but the rudest passions put on a new nature and become pleasing in harmony.

-- James Usher

 

Music hath caught a higher place than any virtue I know.  It is the arch-reformer; it hastens the sun to its setting; it invites him to its rising; it is the sweetest reproach, a measured satire.

-- Henry David Thoreau

 

Music is the crystallisation of sound.

-- Henry David Thoreau

 

Singing is sweet, but be sure of this,
Lips only sing when they cannot kiss.

The wine of love is music,
And the fest of Love is song.

-- James Thomson