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


Music is an outburst of the soul. ~Frederick Delius

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. ~Alphonse de Lamartine

What passion cannot music raise and quell! ~John Dryden

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays


Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


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


Music is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. ~Buffy Sainte-Marie