"Music, the greatest good
that mortals know, and all of
heaven we have below."
-Joseph Addison

"The history of a people is found in its songs."
-George Jellinek

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

"Music is well said
to be the speech of angels;
in fact, nothing among
the utterances allowed to man
is felt to be so divine.
It brings us near to the infinite."
-Thomas Carlyle

"Without music, life is
a journey through a desert."
-Pat Conroy

"Just as certain selections of music
will nourish your physical body
and your emotional layer,
so other musical works will bring
greater health to your mind."
-Hal A. Lingerman

"I think music in itself is healing.
It's an explosive expression of humanity.
It's something we are all touched by.
No matter what culture we're from,
everyone loves music."
-Billy Joel

"Like everything else
in nature, music is a becoming,
and it becomes its full self,
when its sounds and laws are used by
intelligent man for the production of
harmony, and so made the vehicle
of emotion and thought."
-Theodore Mungers

"You are the music while the music lasts."
-T. S. Eliot

"True music must repeat the thought and
inspirations of the people and the time.
My people are Americans and my time is today."
-George Gershwin

"Music is your own experience,
your own thoughts, your wisdom.
If you don't live it, it won't come
out of your horn. They teach you
there's a boundary line to music. But,
man, there's no boundary line to art."
-Charlie Parker

"The effects of good music
are not just because it's new;
on the contrary music strikes us more
the more familiar we are with it."
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"It is cruel, you know,
that music should be so beautiful.
It has the beauty of loneliness and
of pain: of strength and freedom.
The beauty of disappointment
and never-satisfied love.
The cruel beauty of nature, and
everlasting beauty of monotony."
-Benjamin Britten

"The new sound-sphere is global.
It ripples at great speed across languages,
ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics
of this musical Esperanto is staggering.
Rock and pop breed concentric worlds
of fashion, setting and life-style.
Popular music has brought with it sociologies
of private and public manner, of group solidarity.
The politics of Eden come loud."
-George Steiner