My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

When a musician hath forgotten his note, He makes as though a crumb stuck in his throat.