“Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.”

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”

“Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”

“She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.”

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”

“Playing music is something I would like to do my whole life.”

“Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.”

“Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life/”

“Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.”

“My life is like a music-hall,
Where, in the impotence of rage,
Chained by enchantment to my stall,
I see myself upon the stage
Dance to amuse a music-hall.”