Aldous Huxley

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."

Kin Hubbard

"Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music."

Isaac Stern

"I don't believe in having bands for solo records."

Mick Jagger

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."

Gustav Mahler

"If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong."

Simon Rattle

"If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks."

Sidney Lanier

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

Victor Hugo

"Music is love in search of a word."

Sidney Lanier

"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

Jean Paul Richter

"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."

Oscar Wilde

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

Leo Tolstoy

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

Thomas Carlyle

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

Maya Angelou

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Berthold Auerbach

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

W. H. Auden

"Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off."

Bryan Ferry

"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees."

Andre Segovia

"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself."

Sidney Lanier

"When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me."

Aaron Copland

"Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once."

Robert Browning

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"You are the music while the music lasts."

T. S. Eliot

"You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?"

Bryan Ferry