Quotes about Music
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
— Billy Sunday
I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.
— Toni Morrison
As long as we live there is never enough singing.
— Martin Luther
God to me is love. It's the ruler of all things, whether it's with a person or with music or with your TV. I feel like it's this energy. God is energy, love is energy.
— Kendrick Lamar
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.
— Duke Ellington
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
— John Calvin
Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.
— St. Isidore of Seville
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
— Maya Angelou
To sing is to pray twice.
— St. Augustine
When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.
— Hildegard of Bingen
Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.
— Martin Luther
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
— Martin Luther