"Without music, life would be a mistake." Friedrich Nietzsche, "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent" Victor Hugo"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imaginationand charm and gaiety to life and to everything." Plato "Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy" Ludwig van Beethoven"Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." Leonard Bernstein"Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once." Robert Browning, "Music is the universal language of mankind." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on." John Keats"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife." Khalil Gibran "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts."- Percy Bysshe Shelley