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Here the women have a metronome under their corsets, which beats time, but not music. – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897 [speaking

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens… if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly… to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it? – Charles Ives

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. – Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

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

All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it. – Dave Barry

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

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. – Helmut Walcha

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. – Lily Tomlin

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. – Robert Benchley

The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera. – Dave Barry

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. – Lao Tzu

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. – Reba McEntire

Music is my religion. – Jimi Hendrix

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. – Ludwig van Beethoven

Hell is full of musical amateurs. – George Bernard Shaw

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. – Richard M. Nixon