"Music is well said to be the speech of angels." -Thomas Carlyle

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."- Victor Hugo

"Where words fail, music speaks." - Hans Christian Andersen

"It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music." - Ursula K. Le Guin

"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence." -Leopold Stokowski

"Without music life would be a mistake. "-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music." ~Gustav Mahler