Quotes about Music

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

In The Sound of Music, when Captain Von Trapp and Maria reveal their love for each other, what does Maria say? "Nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could." We don't normally think of philosophical principles as romantic, but Maria was here expressing a fundamental principle of classical metaphysics.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

And in their motions harmony divine so smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear listens delighted.