Music hath charms to soothe the savage 45 breast. Congreve.
Music in the best sense has little need of novelty (Neuheit); on the contrary, the older it is, the more one is accustomed to it, the greater is the effect it produces. Goethe.
Music, in the works of its greatest masters, is more marvellous, more mysterious, than poetry. H. Giles.
Music is a kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze that. Carlyle.
Music is a language directed to the passions; but the rudest passions put on a new nature and become pleasing in harmony. James Usher.
Music is a prophecy of what life is to be, the rainbow of promise translated out of seeing into hearing. Mrs. Child.
Music is an invisible dance, as dancing is a silent music. Jean Paul.
Music is but wild sounds civilised into time and tune. Fuller.
Music is our fourth great material want—first 5 food, then raiment, then shelter, then music. Bovee.
Music is the art of the prophets, the only art which can calm the agitations of the soul. Luther.