Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises,” said Mr Casaubon.

Certain strains of music affect me so strangely - I can never hear them without their changing my whole attitude of mind for a time, and if the effect would last, I might be capable of heroisms.

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.