"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception." (When asked about his theory of relativity)
-- Albert Einstein

"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best."
-- Henry Van Dyke

"If music be the food of love, play on:give me excess of it..."
--William Shakespeare

"The life of the arts far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization."
--John F. Kennedy

"Mozart is sweet sunshine."
-- Antonin Dvorak

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams World losers and world forsakers, on whole the pale moon gleams, but we are movers and shakers of the world forever, it seems."
--Arthur O'Shaughnessy

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
-- Plato

"Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains."
-- John Philip Sousa


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