Music can be brought to the highest realms of excellence, but if it is done just for that, it is a vain attempt.  But if in that process human lives are being uplifted, then what we have done is right and then there is a noble reason for what we do.

-- Anton Armstrong

Our art form invites, enables, and requires people to feel. . . . I think we owe to humanity, to the planet, and to all of existence to put as much beauty in the world as we can.

-- Charles Bruffy

. . . music allows us to achieve the impossible -- light, longing, and eternity speak to us feeling every moment.

-- Rihards Dubra

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.  It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain.  Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

-- George Eliot