"We are the music makers,
We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams; --
World-losers and world-forsakers
On whom the pale moon gleams,
We are the movers and the shakers
Of the world, for ever, it seems."
-A.W.E. O'Shaughenssy, "Ode, 'We are the music makers'"

"Architecture is frozen music."
-F. Von Schelling

"If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it."
-Franz Lizst

"In the end, we shall have had enough of cynicism and skeptiscim and humbug and we shall want to live more musically."
-Van Gogh

"If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing."
~Sir James Barrie

"There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music."
-Browning

"There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings in us; it melts us to tears; we know not how; - it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words; just as divine, just as blessed."
~Charles Kingsley

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
-Carlyle

"Yet there is one thing the world…cannot take from us, and that is the deep and abiding joy and consolation perpetuated in great music. Here the spirit may find home and relief when all else fails."
~Eric Fenby, Delius as I Knew Him

"You are the music while the music lasts."
-T.S. Eliot

"Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life."
~Yo-yo Ma

"What we play is life."
-Louis Armstrong

"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."
-Beethoven

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
-Nieztsche

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of lonliness and of pain; of strength and freedom. The beauty of dissappointment and of never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and the everlasting beauty of monotony."
-Benjamin Britten

"It's a fact of life that deep, true passion is one of the necessary ingredients to make a life in music work and to achieve something meaningful."
~Robert Dick

"Words are the pen the heart, but music is the pen the soul."
~Shneur Zalman

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
-Aldous Huxley

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music."
~Sergei Rachmaninoff

"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn."
-Charlie Parker

"Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one."
-Duke Ellington

"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."
-Oscar Wilde

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful."
~Plato

"The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more."
-Wordsworth

"Music in itself is healing."
-Billy Joel

"Music stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter, a sort of nebulous mediator, like and unlike the things it mediates. Spirit that requires manifestation in time and matter that can do without space....We do not know what music is."
~ Heinrich Heine

"Music is the universal language."
-John Wilson

"Sometimes even music can't substitute for tears"
~Paul Simon

"I'm a musician before I'm a woman, no question."
-Tori Amos

"Without music, life is a journey through a desert."
-Pat Conroy

"See deep enough and you see musically, the heart of nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it."
-Carlyle

"Music is love in search of a word."
-Sidney Lanier

"Music can change the world."
-Beethoven

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
And all of heaven we have below."
-Joseph Addison

"Music is the vernacular of the human soul"
-Geoffery Lantham

"Music is feeling…not sound."
-Wallace Stevens

"Now the rich stream of music winds along
Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong."
-Thomas Gray

"Music: the breathing of statues. Perhaps: the silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts."
-Ranier Maria Rilke

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
-Berthold Auerbach

"All music is is what awakens in you when you are reminded by the instruments."
-Walt Whitman

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to remain silent."
-Victor Hugo