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

 —Victor Hugo

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

 —John Erskine

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

 —Rainer Maria Rilke

He who sings, scares away his woes.

 —Cervantes

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

—Liberace

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

—Woody Allen

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

—Mark Twain

Country music is three chords and the truth.

—Harlan Howard

Music is love in search of a word.

 —Sidney Lanier

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

—Maya Angelou

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

—Henry David Thoreau

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

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require.

 —Edward Elgar

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

 —Ezra Pound

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

 —J.K. Rowling

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.

 —Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)