Quotes about Music

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We care that Scott Joplin's music lives! We care because we know this: the life we save is our own.

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

Life is a song to me.

God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.

My life is as good as an Abba song. It's as good as Dancing Queen.

Whether in music, or other things, one never knows what surprisingly satisfying things God has in His plan for the developed talent with is literally 'given' to Him to use or to lay aside.

There is a God who is there, and who is personal, and who accepts art (music) as a praise to Himself, as worship, when given to Him in this sincere way- without being strained through the 'strainer' of human acceptance. If we follow the urging of God, we would not be embarrassed to fulfill our urge to create(make music) for God's ears alone. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth.

Well, she got her daddy's carAnd she cruised through the hamburger stand nowSeems she forgot all about the libraryLike she told her old man nowAnd with the radio blasting goes cruisingJust as fast as she can nowAnd she'll have fun, fun, funTill her daddy takes the T-Bird away

And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

Sweet home AlabamaWhere skies are so blueSweet home AlabamaLord, I'm coming home to you.

Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness.