Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.

—Charlie Parker

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

—Henry David Thoreau

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.                                                                            —John Erskine

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

—George Eliot

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

—Barbara Sher

Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

—A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

 — Aldous Huxley

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

—Anne Morrow Lindberg

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.

—Maria Callas

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

 —Edgar Wilson Nye

I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

 —Woody Allen

Music describes what cannot be studied mathematically or scientifically — it makes the intangible sensible.

—Matthew Eisner

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!             — J.K. Rowling

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

 —Robert Fripp