"Music is the poetry of the air." 

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. ~ (William Congreve) 

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. ~ (Plato)

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~ (Thomas Carlyle)

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. ~ (Sir Thomas Beecham)

I write music with an exclamation point. ~ (Richard Wagner)

If music be the food of love; play on. ~ (William Shakespeare)

In music the passions enjoy themselves. ~ (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Music and Singing do not produce in the heart that which is not in it" 9th century philosopher. ~ (Abu Salman al Divani)

A painter paints pictures on canvas.  But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~ (Leopold Stokowski)

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.  ~ (Ludwig van Beethoven)

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)

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously.  Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.  ~ (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)

Music is love in search of a word.  ~ (Sidney Lanier)

It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.  ~ (Victor de LaPrade)

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.  ~ (Jean Paul Richter)

Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.  ~ (William Green)

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.  ~ (Simon Rattle)