"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
- Aldous Huxley
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"The only truth is music."
- Jack Kerouac
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music."
- Kurt Vonnegut
"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Music is the best means we have of digesting time."
- W. H. Auden
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Where words fail, music speaks."
- Hans Christian Anderson
"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."
- Oscar Wilde
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination and life to everything."
- Plato
"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without."
- Confucius
