Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.

Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to read more

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.

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

Music is a safe kind of high.

Music is a safe kind of high.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
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Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
Making a poet out of a man.
The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain--
For the reed that grows never more again
As a reed with the reeds of the river.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Without music, life would be a mistake.