Enjoying the Silence

The man that hath no music in himself,
nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils;
the motions of his spirit are as dull as night,
and his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to
the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness and life
to everything.

Plato

There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C Major.

Sergei Prokofiev

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young. (go, Rada, go, Mihail!)

Aristotle

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

Johann Sebastian Bach

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