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

 

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

 

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

-- Edwin Leibfreed

 

There is no agent so powerful in giving us real rest as true music . . . It does for heart and mind, and also for the body, what sleep does for the body alone.

-- Auguste Gratry

 

Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.

-- Shakespeare

 

Music is the language of some other state, born of memory.  For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music?

-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

 

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences.  Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

-- Cicero

 

Music . . . a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.

-- Thomas Carlyle

 

Of all of the arts music is the perfect art, because it strikes the soul without the aid of the intellect.

-- William Kindler

 

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

-- Sri Aurobindo

 

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician.  I often think in music.  I live my daydreams in music.  I see my life in terms of music.

-- Albert Einstein

 

We are slowed down sound and light waves.  A walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos.  We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.

-- Albert Einstein

 

Music is a supernatural force on the earth.  It has the power to transform the heart and mind.

-- Kathy McClary

 

Music has the power to heal, transform and inspire and we have the power through deep listening to increase our intuition and self-awareness.

-- Andre Feriante

 

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

 

Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.

-- Debasish Mridha

 

Too bad people can't always be playing music; maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.

-- Margo Benary-Isbert

 

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

-- Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

 

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

-- Pablo Casals

 

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

-- Johann Sebastian Bach

 

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 has the capacity to reach the innermost reaches of the Soul, and gives flight to the imagination.

-- Plato

 

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

 

There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

-- Pythagoras

 

Life is not logic.  Life is not philosophy.  Life is a dance, a song, a celebration.  It is more like love and less like logic.

-- Osho Rajneesh

 

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

-- Rumi

 

The Earth has music for those who listen.

-- George Santayana

 

If more of us valued food, cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

 

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

 

Music is the language of the spirit.  It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

-- Khalil Gibran

 

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together. 

-- Edgar Winter

 I prefer to learn everything through music.  If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it.  It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real. 

-- Jeff Buckley

 

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex.  But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at.  It is a spiritual state of oneness.

-- Terry Riley

 

The whole of life itself expresses the blues.  That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling and understanding.  The blues can be about anything pertaining to the facts of life.  The blues call on God as much as a spiritual song do.

-- Willie Dixon

 

There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression.  It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.

-- John Towner Williams

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When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home.

-- Rudolf Steiner

 

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

-- Zoltan Kodaly

 

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am -- my faith, my knowledge, my being . . . When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups . . . I want to speak to their souls.

-- John Coltrane

 

Music doesn't lie.  If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

-- Jimi Hendrix

 

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

-- Pablo Casals

 

A small thing, but in a dissonant world, every moment of harmony counts -- and if we share music, we might just shout in anger a little less and sing in unity more.  Or so we can hope.

-- Jon Meacham

 

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

 

I'm wishing he could see that music lives.  Forever.  That it's stronger than death.  Stronger than time.  And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

-- Jennifer Donnelly

 

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

-- Pablo Casals