Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Quotations
Music
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.
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
