"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like in the universe."

 "Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends." -- Alphonse de Lamartine --

 "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST." -- Frank Zappa --

 "Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere." -- Jean Rhys -- 

 "I guess a big part of serious fiction's purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves." -- David Foster Wallace --

 "Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while." -- Malorie Blackman --

 "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." -- Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird --