After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Martin Luther
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent
Victor Hugo
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
Plato
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
Edgar Watson Howe
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
E. Y. Harburg
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
Marcel Marceau
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without
Confucius