A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. Leopold Stokowski

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

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! Thomas Carlyle

If the King loves music, it is well with the land. Mencius

Without music life would be a mistake. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. Oliver Wendell Holmes

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. Gustav Mahler

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? Michael Torke

He who sings scares away his woes. Cervantes

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. Benjamin Disraeli

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket. Henri Rabaud

Music is the poetry of the air. Richter

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.  Sydney Smith

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. William P. Merrill

If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. Doménico Cieri Estrada

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. Henry David Thoreau

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Ludwig van Beethoven

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. H.A. Overstreet

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. Edward Elgar