Quotes about Music
The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.
— Martin Luther
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.
— Peter Kreeft
In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.
— JRR Tolkien
Hope is the music of the whole Bible, the heartbeat, the pulse and the atmosphere of the whole Bible.
— AW Tozer
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
— John Lennon
I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.
— John Lennon
Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.
— St. John Chrysostom
Music is the 5th gospel.
— Martin Luther
The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
— Thomas Merton
Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
— Marc Chagall
Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
— Confucius
Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
— Oscar Wilde