"We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic."
- E. Merrill Root

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
- Auerback

"Music is god in the form of sound."
- Muktananda

"There is no magic like music for making an effect on the human soul."
- Hazrat Inayat Khan

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
- Aldous Huxley

"Music...can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."
- The Unanswered Question

"When words leave off, music begins."
- Heinrich Heine

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The time is fast approaching when people will select their music with the same intelligent care and knowledge they now use to select their food. When that time comes, music will become a principal source of healing for many individuals and social ills, and human evolution will be tremendously accelerated."
- Corrine Heline

"Music is the universal language."
- Richard Wagner

"Every illness is a musical problem."
- Novalis

"Each time we listen to beautiful music, we select an impression to weave into the harmony of our unfoldment."
- F.A. Newhouse

"Music touches our innermost being and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life."
- Hazrat Inayat Khan

"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."
- Igor Stravinsky

"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."
- George Szell

"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Music reflects our emotions in a tangible form we can perceive."
- R. Tofanelli

"I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality."
- H.A. Overstreet

"In the spheres a wonderful harmony of sound is being produced eternally, and from that source have all things been created."
- Florence Crane

"In the education of the future, music for every person will be deemed as necessary as the reading and writing at present, for it will be clearly seen that it is a most powerful means for bringing new life, health and strength."
- Prentice Mulford

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy..."
- Beethoven

"We trust that the magic of sound, scientifically applied, will contribute in ever greater measure to the relief of human suffering, to a higher development and a richer integration of the human personality, to the harmonious synthesis of all human 'notes' of all 'group chords and melodies' - until there will be the greater symphony of the one humanity."
- Roberto Assagioli

"There's music in the sighing of the reed;
there's music in the gushing of the rill;
there's music in all things if men had ears."
- Lord Byron, Don Juan

"And yet this were surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell."
- Euripedes, Medea

"Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music."
- Hafiz, Sufi Poet

"Without music life would be a mistake."
- Friedrich Nietzche

"it's not a question of Indian music or American music. Every kind of music - its rhythm, its melody - gives you nourishment for your soul."
- Ali Akbar Khan

"Listen to your sound, the real sound that is inside of you."
- Kabir

"When hearing gives way to listening, one's awareness increases, the will is aroused and all aspects of our being are involved at the same time."
- Tomatis

I am Music
I am Music, most ancient of the arts. I am more than ancient; I am eternal. Even before life began upon this earth, I was here - in the winds and the waves. When the first trees and flowers and grasses appeared, I was among them. And when flowers and grasses appeared, I was among them. And when Man came, I at once became the most delicate, most subtle and most powerful medium for the expression of Man's emotions.

When men were little better than beasts, I influenced them for their good. In all ages I have inspired men with hope, kindled their love, given a voice to their joys, cheered them on to valorous deeds, and soothed them in times of despair. I have played a great part in the drama of life, whose end and purpose is the complete perfection of Man's nature. Through my influence, human nature has been uplifted, sweetened and refined. With the aid of men, I have beocme a Fine Art. I have a myriad of voices and instruments. I am in the hearts of all men and on their tongues, in all lands among all peoples; the ignorant and unlettered know me, not less than the rich and the learned. For I speak to all men, in a language that all understand. Even the deaf hear me, if they but listen to the voices of their own souls. I am the food of love. I have taught men gentleness and peace; and I have led them onward to heroic deeds. I comfort the lonely, and I harmonize the discord of crowds. I am a necessary luxury to all men. I am MUSIC.
- Anonymous