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“I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“This machine kills fascists.”
― Woody Guthrie

“A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.”
― Colbie Caillat

“For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.”
― Eric Clapton

“The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.”
― Martin Luther

“A person who...does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs."

[Foreward to Georg Rhau's (1488-1548) Collection Symphoniae iucundae, 1538]”
― Martin Luther

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
― George Eliot

“I've found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.”
― Bryce W. Anderson

“When words fail music speaks. ”
― Irena Huang

“Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.”
― Helen Thompson

“Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.”
― Margot Benary-Isbert, Rowan Farm

“Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.”
― John Erskine

“Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

“So stark ist der Zauber der Musik und, immer mächtiger werdend, musste er jede Fessel einer andern Kunst zerreißen."

(Beethovens Instrumentalmusik)”
― E.T.A. Hoffmann, E T A Hoffmann's Musical Writings

“Once again, she was free. Once again, she found peace. It was music that freed her soul from the dungeon of her mind.”
― Wiss Auguste, The Illusions of Hope

“A small thing, but in a dissonant world, every moment of harmony counts--and if we share music, we might just shout in anger a little less and sing in unity more. Or so we can hope.”
― Jon Meacham, Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation

“And she sang. Perhaps she'd never stop, for it was rather freeing, this blissful, empowered place where she was nothing but rhythm and resonance.”
― Dianna Hardy, Blood Shadow

“The husband is Japanese, the mother white, their son unearthly beautiful. He's a cellist; in the warm months, he rehearses with the parlor windows thrown open, ... This past summer, his music wandered toward the house, approached my living room, knocked politely on the glass: Let me in. I didn't, couldn't â€� I never open the windows, never â€� but still I could hear it murmuring, pleading: Let me in. Let me in!”
― A. J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

“One indulgence alone from time to time I allow myself, - 'tis Music! which has power to delight me even to rapture! it quiets all anxiety, it carries me out of myself, I forget through it every calamity, even the bitterest anguish.”
― Frances Burney, Cecilia

“There's something about the transporting capacity of music, something about it's odd but undeniable ability to create a collective experience by firing our individual imaginations, that's more likely to open our minds and our hearts to competing points of view.”
― Jon Meacham, Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation

“Music knows just where to touch.
Music knows just who to heal.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Music contains zero alcohol, yet it gets people high.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“When natural music is heightened and polished by art there man first beholds and can with great wonder examine to a certain extent, (for it cannot be wholly
seized or understood) the great and perfect wisdom of God in His marvellous work of music, in which this is most singular and indeed astonishing, that one man sings a simple tune or tenor (as musicians call it), together with which three, four or five voices also sing, which as it were play and skip delightedly round this simple tune or tenor, and wonderfully grace and adorn the said tune with manifold devices and sounds, performing as it were a heavenly dance, so that those who at all understand it and are moved by it must be greatly amazed, and believe that there is
nothing more extraordinary in the world than such a song adorned with many voices.”
― Martin Luther

“She barely understood the words or the story she told. But she felt the power and glory in the music and she knew, she believed, if she let the music carry her like the wings of a bird on the wind, it would take her away to another place. A good and happy place. A place she wanted to be.”
― H.S.J. Williams

“Here comes music, Ma. Just listen to my voice. You can't get lost in music, Ma.”
― Barbara Lynn-Vannoy

“We clasp hands and join the circle dance, leaping and laughing. The song feels as though it is calling my blood, moving it through my veins to the same ragged beat, with the same sweet chords.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Art flows well when music is the conduit.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Tocó algo parecido al resurgir de la vida en primavera, con notas roncas y agudas como un aroma que se extiende y embriaga.”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada

“My favorite band's lyrics spoke to me more powerfully than any parent or teacher ever could. They helped me figure out who I was, what I was feeling, and possibly, where I was headed.”
― Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark