Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler

　　Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton

　　Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau

　　Music expression is cannot be described in words, but not impossible to remain silent things. - Victor Hugo

　　Music education and education, and is not a musician of the first is man's education. - SuHuoM LinSiJi

　　Without music, life is no value. - Nietzsche

　　No early music education, doing things I can do nothing. - Albert Einstein

　　Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu

　　After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.　　-- Aldous Huxley

　　Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.　　-- H. L. Mencken

　　There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.　　-- Michel de Montaigne

　　I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.　　-- Elvis Presley

　　Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

　　-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boat" on his television show, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."

　　There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.　　-- George Bernard Shaw

　　Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.　　-- Richard Strauss, on conducting

　　The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No." -- Aaron Copland

　　We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962