My attempt to support the ideas discussed here at YOU CAN TRUST YOUR EARS. Most of them speak like books.
The posting on Music: an alternative language explains many aspects of this collection of famous quotes.

• Music is the shorthand of emotions.~Leo Tolstoy
• A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski
• Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach
• All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! ~Thomas Carlyle
• If the King loves music, it is well with the land. ~Mencius
• Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
• Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
• If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~Gustav Mahler
• Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? ~Michael Torke
• And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares that infest the day shall fold their tents like the Arabs
  and as silently steal away.~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done
• He who sings scares away his woes. ~Cervantes
• Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name
• Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. ~Benjamin Disraeli
• Music is what feelings sound like. ~Author Unknown
• There’s music in the sighing of a reed. ~Author Unknown
• There’s music in the gushing of a rill. ~Author Unknown
• There’s music in all things, if men had ears. ~Author Unknown
• Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.~Lord Byron
• Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket. ~Henri Rabaud
• Music is the poetry of the air. ~Richter
• If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. ~Sydney Smith
• There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William P. Merrill
• If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada
• Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. ~Henry David Thoreau
• Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven
• I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. ~H.A. Overstreet
• My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. ~Edward Elgar
• Alas for those that never sing,But die with all their music in them! ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. ~Charlie Parker
• Life can’t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. ~William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. ~Henry Ward Beecher
• Play the music, not the instrument. ~Author Unknown
• Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~Ludwig van Beethoven
• Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence. ~Robert Fripp
• An intellectual is someone who can listen to the “William Tell Overture” without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ~John Chesson
• Music’s the medicine of the mind. ~John A. Logan
• You are the music while the music lasts. ~T.S. Eliot
• Music is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer
• Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. ~Ezra Pound
• He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. ~Robert Browning
• You can’t possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven’s Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
• The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven’t got the joke yet. ~Oliver Herford
• What we provide is an atmosphere… of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way. Under its influence I’ve seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell. ~Meyer Davis, about his orchestra
• …where music dwells Lingering – and wandering on as loth to die… ~William Wordsworth, “Within King’s College Chapel, Cambridge”
• Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. ~Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Music is an outburst of the soul. ~Frederick Delius
• Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ~Oscar Wilde
• In music the passions enjoy themselves. ~Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886
• Music is what life sounds like. ~Eric Olson
• Only play what you hear. If you don’t hear anything, don’t play anything.~Chick Corea
• If you can sing it, you can play it.~Jackie Mclean
• Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.~Leibniz