Quotes about Music
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.
- Brigham Young
Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.
- John Calvin
The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.
- Nelson Mandela
No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord
- Samuel Rutherford
Mozart's music gives us permission to live.
- John Updike
Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?
- Ezra Taft Benson
Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.
- William Temple
I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.
- Mike Huckabee
An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.
- Pope Benedict XVI
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
- George Bernard Shaw
I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.
- Steven Curtis Chapman
The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
- George Lucas