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

And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done