All music jars when the soul's out of tune. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Art is the triumph over chaos. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. Music is the soul of geometry.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been informed by magic numbers and persuasive sound. Americans are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.