Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” “Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” “Music is to the soul what words are to the mind “Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.” “Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.” “Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.” “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” “Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”