The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination.

-- St. Ambrose 

 

Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.

-- William Shakespeare

 

Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul.

-- Martin Luther

 

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

-- Plato

 

By harmony all phenomena are formed and sustained.  There is a scientific statement to the effect that this earth is a vast harmonic wave system that is built and sustained by unheard music.

-- Corinne Heline

 

Life is a song.  It has its own rhythm of harmony.  It is a symphony of all things which exist in major and minor keys of Polarity.  It blends the discords, by opposites, into harmony which unites the whole into a grand symphony of life.  To learn through experience in this life, to appreciate the symphony and lessons of life and to blend with the whole, is the object of our being here.

-- Dr. Randolph Stone

Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony.

-- Leonardo da Vinci

 

The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.

-- Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

Music has healing power.  It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

-- Elton John

 

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

-- Jason Mraz

 

If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.

-- Josh Groban

 

The power of music to integrate and cure . . . is quite fundamental.  It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

-- Oliver Sacks

 

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

-- Robert Green Ingersoll

 

I think music in itself is healing.  It's an explosive expression of humanity.

-- Billy Joel

 

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

-- Karl Lagerfeld

 

The object of all music should be the glory of God and pleasant recreation.

-- Johann Sebastian Bach