Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Music is the crystallisation of sound. Thoreau.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Beethoven.

Music is the most immediate means possessed by the will for the manifestation of its inner impulses. A. R. Parsons.

Music is the only one of the fine arts in which 10 not only man, but all other animals, have a common property. Jean Paul.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral and religious feelings. Addison.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus. Emerson.

Music is the true universal speech of mankind. Weber.

Music makes people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. Luther.

Music, of all the arts, has the greatest influence 15 over the passions, and the legislator ought to give it the greatest encouragement. Napoleon.

Music of the spheres. Pericles, v. 1.