Music

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
Igor Stravinsky


Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy


Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa


Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
Aristotle


Music is the soundtrack of your life.
Dick Clark


All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Walter Pater


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


Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes


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


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


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