“There is no such thing as happy music.”

“Of music and happiness, always make your lifestyle.”

“Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.”

“Happy are they that go to bed with grave music like Pythagoras.”

“Music is something everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy.”

“Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.”

“My wife, my child, my music, Nature and the sun; they are my happiness.”

“There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
The earth is but the music of the spheres.”

“It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.”

“Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.”