Quotations
I do but sing because I must.
- Tennyson, "In Memoriam"
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
- Milton, "Arcades"
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
- Congreve, THE MOURNING BRIDE
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Voiceless"