"Music is the universal language of mankind." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Where words fail, music speaks." - Hans Christian Andersen "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." - Victor Hugo "Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Music can change the world." - Ludwig van Beethoven "Music is the shorthand of emotion." - Leo Tolstoy "If music be the food of love, play on." - William Shakespeare "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." - Bob Marley "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination." - Plato "Music is the strongest form of magic." - Marilyn Manson "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley "Music is what feelings sound like." - Georgia Cates "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." - Robert Fripp "Music in the soul can be heard by the universe." - Lao Tzu "Music is the silence between the notes." - Claude Debussy "Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light." - Claude Debussy "Music is the universal language of the spirit." - Kahlil Gibran "Music is the art of thinking with sounds." - Jules Combarieu "Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." - Leonard Bernstein