1. Music is the greatest happiness in life; music is a clear stream in life; first of all, it is a furnace for cultivating one's temperament. ——Xian Xinghai

2. Music expresses things that cannot be described in words, but it is impossible to remain silent about them. ——Victor Hugo

3. Music is not only an art of expression, it is also an art that can cause excitement. ——(France) Fetis

4. Music often delays death. ——Aesop

5. Music praises people’s lives and guides them towards a bright future. ——(Soviet) Prokofiev

6. Musicians must constantly reflect on themselves and cultivate their innermost things in order to turn it to the outside world. ——Goethe

7. The art of a musician does not lie in directly depicting images, but in placing the mind in the emotions that these objects can create in the mind. ——Rousseau

8. Music education is not the education of musicians, but first of all, the education of people. ——Suhomlinsky

9. Music education—it is not about cultivating musicians, it is about cultivating people first. ——Suhomlinsky

10. In addition to paying great attention to moral and social purposes, music education must explore beautiful things as its own purpose and educate people to be beautiful and kind. ——Plato

11. Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and all philosophy. Whoever can penetrate the meaning of my music can transcend the suffering that ordinary people cannot extricate themselves from. ——Beethoven

12. Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and all philosophy. ——Beethoven

13. Music is the flame of the purest emotion that directly refreshes the heart and mind without any external force; it is the air inhaled from the mouth, and it is the blood flowing in the blood vessels of life. ——(Hungary) Liszt

14. Music is an art based on beauty. ——Qingzhu

15. Music is the most beautiful aspect of life.

——Engels