I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water. ~ Ray Charles
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. ~ Plato
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~ Berthold Auerbach
Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~ Leo Tolstoy
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. ~ Frank Zappa
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. ~ Paul Simon
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. ~ William Congreve
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together. ~ Edgar Winter
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. ~ Jacques Barzun
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