"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