“Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.”
-Lewis Thomas

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig van Beethoven

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.
-Les Paul

Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.
-William Green

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it.
-Plato