Good music is wine turned to sound.

-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments,

It is not the violins and the cornets, it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza, nor that of the men's chorus, nor that of the women's chorus.

It is nearer and farther than they.

-- Walt Whitman

 

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung. 

-- Walt Whitman

 

Music comes before religion, as emotion comes before thought, and sound before sense.  What is the first thing you hear when you go into a church?  The organ playing.

-- Alfred North Whitehead