„The most delightful of all music, that of your own praises.“

— Xenophon

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„I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.“
— Virginia Woolf
„Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.“
— Charlie Parker
„Jewish folk music has made a most powerful impression on me. I never tire of delighting in it, it's multifaceted, it can appear to be happy while it is tragic. It's almost always laughter through tears. This quality of Jewish folk music is close to my ideas of what music should be. There should always be two layers in music. Jews were tormented for so long that they learned to hide their despair. They express despair in dance music.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich
„Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning… except its own.“
— Leonard Bernstein