I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music.

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot

Life without music would be a mistake.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.