No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it on the same level as food and sex.

To master the piano is to master the universe.

"Children dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."

Music is truth.

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

"It seems strange to think that my violin was once a tree, but I do not know what else could have caught the music that lies within it, waiting for the touch. It must be centuries old, and through all those years it was the listening and the learning, weaving in with its growth the forest melodies to sing to generations yet unborn.
       Wind and wave and song of bird, crash of thunder, drip of rain, and mating-call-all these are in the fibre of my violin.  And the thousand notes of sea and storm, the music of the waterfall and stream-what wonder that it is so nearly the human voice! There must have been a love story in that forest, for it sings love, love, and only love, though I do not remember of hearing it until I knew you.
       Perhaps you have taught it a new melody-stranger things have happened-and it has learned your lesson best."

"Buried Music" From "Love Letters Of A Musician" by Myrtle Reed,
 Copyright 1898.

Well, if you want to sing out, sing out
And if you want to be free, be free
'Cause there's a million things to be
You know that there are

The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the
sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I have devoted my life to. (Luciano Pavarotti 1935 - 2007)