Music Quotes

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of women.

-Beethoven

 

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

 

Music is love in search of a word. -Lanier

 

Music is the universal language of mankind. -Longfellow

 

Music is the poetry of the air. -Richter

 

Singing is the highest expression of music because it is the most direct expression of the emotions of the soul. -Rogers

 

Our singing should be such that God hears it with pleasure-singing in which there is not so much art as heart, not so much of musical sound as of spiritual emotion. -Spurgeon

 

When your heart is full of Christ, you will want to sing. -Spurgeon

 

A friend once asked the great composer Haydn why his church music was always so full of gladness.  He answered: "I cannot make it otherwise.  I write according to the thoughts I feel.  When I think upon my God, my heart is so full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen; and since God has given me a cheerful heart, it will be pardoned me that I serve Him with a cheerful spirit." -Van Dyke