Music as perceived by the world

“Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.”
Johnny Depp
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
Tom Waits
“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning
“Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.”
Douglas Adams
“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”
Hannah Harrington, Saving June
“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
Alphonse de Lamartine
“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”
Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
Marilyn Manson
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
Robert Fripp
“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
Confucius, The Book of Rites
“Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”
Maria von Trapp