Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

-- Johann Sebastian Bach

 

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

-- Mark Helprin

 

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

-- George Eliot

 

Music is the great uniter.  An incredible force.  Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

-- Sarah Dessen

 

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

-- Alphonse de Lamartine

 

Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.  The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.

-- Kabir

 

Sing such a song with all of your heart that you'll never have to sing again.

-- Kabir

 

The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.

-- Kabir

There the whole sky is filled with sound, and there that music is

make without fingers and without strings;

There the game of pleasure and pain does not cease.

Kabir says: "If you merge your life in the Ocean of Life, you

will find your life in the Supreme Land of Bliss."

-- Kabir

 

The music echoes in the emptiness.  It reminds us where we came from and where we're bound.

-- David Mutti Clark

 

Music in the Soul can be heard by the Universe.

-- Lao Tzu

 

The Earth has music for those who listen.

-- George Santayana

 

When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.

-- Jalal Uddin Rumi

 

God sends each person into this world with a special message to deliver, with a special song to sing, with a special act of love to bestow.

-- John Powell

 

Be an artist of your life:  make it a work of art of which you can be proud, as artists are with their paintings, sculptures, music or writings.  As a matter of fact, art and writing will follow, for you will want to express and preserve your life in a durable form.

-- Robert Muller

 

When a smile touches our hearts.  When the forest stills us to peace.  When music moves us to rapture.  When we really love, laugh or dance with joy.  We are at one with the Angels.

-- Dorothy Maclean

 

Love is the Soul's exquisite vibrations.  Love is the Soul at song.

-- Edwin Leibfreed

The art of life is to make another Soul vibrate with a song of Joy.

-- Edwin Leibfreed 

 

Music is the vernacular of the human Soul.

-- Geoffrey Latham

 

Music should be healing, music should uplift the Soul; music should inspire.

-- Hazrat Inayat Khan

Music without words means leaving behind the mind.  And leaving behind music is meditation.  And the source of all is sound.

-- Kabir 

 

Music is the Soul of language.

-- Max Heindel

 

Music is human fuel.  To feel it washing over us in person, like the voltage that frees us from the concepts of restraints or walls or time.  It's not a form of escapism, but rather, a route inward.  It is primal.  Inspiring.  Raw.  Beautiful.  Music is art.  We're always electrified by the art we love.

-- Victoria Erickson

 

And your body is the harp of your Soul, and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it, or confused sounds.

-- Kahlil Gibran

Music is well said to be the speech of Angels, in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so Divine.  It brings us near to the infinite.

-- Thomas Carlyle 

 

If you look deep enough you will see music.  The heart of nature being everywhere music.

-- Thomas Carlyle

 

Every day that is born into the world comes with a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

-- Thomas Carlyle

 

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the Divine.

-- Ludwig van Beethoven

 

Of all the music that reaches farthest into Heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

-- Henry Ward Beecher

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.  Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

-- Henry David Thoreau

 

There is no reason we should not sing, and keep singing, until the flowers start to grow, until the mind begins to clear, until the heart of a thousand children beats ever so much stronger, and the angels in far-off heaven stop and smile, thinking: they are at it again, they are still singing, all will be well, as long as they can keep singing.

-- The Right Reverend Steven Charleston

 Music can change the world because it can change people.

-- Bono

 Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

-- Maria von Trapp

 Music is the great uniter.  An incredible force.  Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

-- Sarah Dessen

 Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

-- Johann Sebastian Bach

 There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

-- Albert Schweitzer

 Some days there won't be a song in your heart.  Sing anyway.

-- Emory Austin

 The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing.  What a mistake that would be.

-- Pete Seeger

 Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.

-- Amit Ray

 Music is the tool to express life -- and all that makes a difference.

-- Herbie Hancock

 How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?

-- Jane Swan

 Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

-- Robert G. Ingersoll

 Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

-- Haruki Murakami

 Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

-- Pablo Casals

 There is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

-- Edward Elgar

 To send light into the darkness of men's hearts -- such is the duty of the artist.

-- Robert Schumann

 

You have to take a deep breath and allow the music to flow through you.  Revel in it, allow yourself to awe.  When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.

-- Kelly White

 

Music -- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!

-- Maria August von Trapp

 

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. 

-- George Eliot

 Listen to the story told by the reed, 

of being separated.

"Since I was cut from the reedbed, 

I have made this crying sound.

Anyone apart from someone he loves 

understands what I say.

Anyone pulled from a source 

longs to go back.

-- Rumi

 Music is the ultimate peaceful harmony.  Proper behavior is the ultimate way to act.  If you have internal harmony with proper outer behavior, then people will be glad to see you, and there will be no conflicts.

-- Confucian Book of Rites

 

If you would be a cultivated person, you should always behave properly and have music.  Music will make your heart peaceful.  Your heart will be easy, straight, loving, and forgiving, and your life will be rich.  That will bring joy, and joy will bring serenity.

-- Confucian Book of Rites

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

-- John McLaughlin