Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Quotations
Music
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
