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The artist is the hand that, by the appropriate use of such or such a key, causes the human soul to vibrate. ~ Wassily Kandinsky

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. ~ Maurice Ravel

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius. ~ Joseph Haydn

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

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin. ~ Albert Einstein

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

Music begins where the possibilities of language end. ~ Jean Sibelius

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love. ~ John Cage

What passion cannot music raise and quell! ~ John Dryden

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything. ~ Gustav Mahler, in a letter to Jean Sibelius

Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul. ~ Plato

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. ~ Leonard Bernstein

I like to think of music as an emotional science. ~ George Gershwin

To have a wonderful idea is nothing special. The idea comes of its own accord and, if it’s fine and great, man cannot take the credit for it. But to take a fine idea and make something great of it, that is the hardest thing to do; that is what real art is! ~ Antonín Dvořák

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. ~ Sergei Rachmaninoff