If music be the food of love, play on; /Give me excess of it that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken and so die (Shakespeare)

There is only one better thing than music - live music. (Jacek Bukowski)

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley)

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. (George Bernard Shaw)

I hate music, especially when it’s played. ( Jimmy Durante)

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. (George Eliot)

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.(Victor Hugo)

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.(Martin Luther)

Music is what I love and it’s what I feel and it’s in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and hopefully bring some enjoyment to other people through is an incredible felling and I am just really thankful for it. (Mariah Carey)

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one’s nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. (Oscar Wilde)

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. (George Eliot)

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.” (Aaron Copland)