This May Help Describe Some of My Thoughts...

“…through foolishness they, the people, deceived themselves into thinking that there was no right or wrong in music, that it was to be judged good or bad by the pleasure it gave…a spirit of law breaking.”
-Plato

“Music directly represents the passions or states of the soul – gentleness, anger, courage, temperance…if one listens to the wrong kind of music he will become the wrong kind of person…”
-Aristotle

"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."
-Albert Einstein (When asked about his theory of relativity)

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
-Ludwig van Beethoven

“[Music has the uncanny power to] ‘…trigger a flood of human emotions and images that have the ability to instantaneously produce very powerful changes in emotional states’.”
–Brain specialist, Dr. Richard Pellegrino

“Take it from a brain guy. In 25 years of working with the brain, I still cannot affect a person’s state of mind the way that one simple song can.”
–Brain specialist, Dr. Richard Pellegrino

“the lyrics become a philosophy of life, a religion”

“Music seems to be the most immediate of all the arts…Music possesses us…it really is as if some ‘other’ has entered not just our bodies, but our intentions, taking us over.”
-Robert Jordain, Science writer and composer of Music, the Brain and Ecstacy

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
-Berthold Auerbach

“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.”
-George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
-Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
-Decca Recording Company rejecting the Beatles, 1962

"Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard."
-Warren G. Bennis

"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
-Leonard Bernstein

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
-Thomas Carlyle

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."
-Abraham Maslow

"Without music life would be a mistake."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.”
-Henry Giles