Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. – Frank Zappa
If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music. – Thomas Carlyle
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. – John Ruskin
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. – William Congreve
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. – W. H. Auden
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. – Isaac Stern
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. – Jacques Barzun