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

 —John Erskine

If you want the best seat in the house, you’ll have to move the cat.

 —anonymous

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

 —Aldous Huxley

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

 —Collette

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here.

 —J.K Rowling

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve the man but deteriorate the cat.

—Mark Twain

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

 —Boethius

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

 —Jules Reynard

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

—George Eliot

Cats love one so much — more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom, they keep it to themselves.

 —Mary Wilkins

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

A cat is there when you call her — if she doesn’t have anything better to do.

 —Bill Adler

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

 —Robert Fripp

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

—W. L. George

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

—Anais Nin

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

 —Erasmus Darwin

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

 —Pat Conroy

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

 —Jules Verne