There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

If music be the food of love; play on.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

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

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.