“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

 
“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

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

“Music’s the medicine of the mind. ” John A. Logan

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

“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ” Robert G. Ingersoll

“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

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

” There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:
And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased
With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.”         William Cowper

“When words leave off, music begins. ” Heinrich Heine

“Truly to sing, that is a different breath. ” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Music is the shorthand of emotion. ” Leo Tolstoy

“Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.  ” Robert Benchley

” Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.  “  Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

“A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens… if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly… to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?  ” Charles Ives

 
” Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”  Ludwig Van Beethoven

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”  Bill Cosby

“A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.”  Henry Giles