Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.

Music is our myth of the inner life.

All the daughters of music shall be brought low.

Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.

All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.

Without music life would be a mistake.