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

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. - Waiting for God.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

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

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

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 witho ...