The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of 
God and the refreshment of the soul. -- Johann Sebastian Bach

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the 
right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. 
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world is 
full of it and you simply take as much as you require. -- Sir Edward Elgar

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be 
introduced into the education of the young. -- Aristotle

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

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music 
lasts. -- Paul Hindemith

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

Study Bach. There you will find everything. -- Johannes Brahms

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either. -- Igor Stravinsky

Music to me is like breathing - I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get 
tired of music. -- Ray Charles

Where words fail, music speaks. -- Hans Christian Anderson

With Liszt, one no longer thinks of difficulty overcome; the instrument 
disappears and music reveals itself.
-- Heinrich Heine, quoted in Walter Beckett, Liszt (1963)

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring 
suggestions of a finer, better life have you left in our souls! 
-- Franz Schubert, Diary, 1816