Music

Music fills the infinite between two souls

Those who wish to sing always find a song

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on

Peace is the first thing the angels sang

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs

Where words fail, music speaks

A man must pay the fiddler, in my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Bang-whang-whang goes the drum, tootle-tetootle the fife; no keeping one's haunches still: it's the greatest pleasure in life

When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.