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