“Music means itself.”
The Beautiful in Music (1854)
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McClary, Susan (1991). Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816618984.

“Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.”
Tiger Lilies a novel, Hurd & Houghton , New York 1867

The Cambridge Companion to Conducting p. 16.

“Music was destined to reach its culmination in the likeness of itself.”
Free Composition, § 251, p. 93.
from (1999). Ideology. Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. Malden, Massachusetts. ISBN 0631212639.

“Only the professional remembers the music itself, timbres, tones and textures.”
K-Linesː A Theory of Memory (1980)
Context: Concrete concepts are not necessarily the simplest ones. A novice best remembers "being at" a concert. The amateur remembers more of what it "sounded like." Only the professional remembers the music itself, timbres, tones and textures.

Source: Steve Reich, Paul Hillier (2002) Writings on Music, 1965-2000, p. 35