When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of read more

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Her voice, the music of the spheres,
So loud, it deafens mortals' ears;
As wise philosophers have read more

Her voice, the music of the spheres,
So loud, it deafens mortals' ears;
As wise philosophers have thought,
And that's the cause we hear it not.

Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

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

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

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth
Symphony will remain.

Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth
Symphony will remain.