Quotes about Music

For some few, the split is seemingly overcome in the person of Jesus; but for more and more people, union with the divine is first experienced through the Christ: in nature, in moments of pure love, silence, inner or outer music, with animals, a sense of awe, or some kind of "Brother Sun and Sister Moon" experience. Why? Because creation itself is the first incarnation of Christ, the primary and foundational "Bible" that revealed the path to God. The

...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be 'Sing your prayers.'

Wild is the music of autumnal winds the faded woods.

I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

I listen'd, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

It is the little rift within the lute,That by and by will make the music mute,And ever widening slowly silence all.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.