Saturday, March 28, 2015


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

Saturday, March 21, 2015


All deep things are song.  It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

-- Thomas Carlyle

Saturday, March 14, 2015


The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

-- Claudio Monteverdi

Saturday, March 7, 2015


Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

-- Plato