Quotes about Music

Inside, upstairs, where the planes are met, the spaces are long and low and lined in tasteful felt gray like that cocky stewardess's cap and filled with the kind of music you become aware of only when the elevator stops or when the dentist stops drilling. Plucked strings, no vocals, music that's used to being ignored, a kind of carpet in the air, to cover up a silence that might remind you of death.

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil's whole structure away.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music. That old adage is certainly true of those who walk to the beat of God's drum. When you take your cues from the Holy Spirit, you'll do some things that will make people think you're crazy. So be it. Obey the whisper and see what God does.

Our churches, too, must recover the centrality of the Word in our worship. Music is a biblically required response to God's Word, but the music God gave us was not given to build our churches upon. A church built on music - of whatever style - is a church built on shifting sands.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?