Fiddle, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

Music is but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

There's only one way to sum up music: either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about with it; you just enjoy it.

The grand object of music is to touch the heart.

Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.

Music has Charms to soothe a savage Breast.

Classical music is th' kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune.