“When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.”

“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”

“The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear.”

“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes”

“Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf.”

“You don't take music seriously if you wear your left ear bud in your right ear and your right ear bud in your left ear.”