Some quotes about music.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~Gustav Mahler
Music is what feelings sound like. ~Author Unknown
Music is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ~Oscar Wilde
Music is an outburst of the soul. ~Frederick Delius
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. ~Alphonse de Lamartine
Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~Leo Tolstoy
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays