Music stirs me, for you

Sea and

Cloud

Mountain and Star

touch me for you.

Alien things only turn

the whole prayer of my heart

to you

All noble paintings

wake the dream of you

All singing lines

lead home to your memory --

Beauty is everywhere kin.

-- Ricarda Huch

(in Heaven's Face Thinly Veiled,

edited by Sarah Anderson)

The power of music is so great that in the legends of all nations, the invention of the art is ascribed to the gods.

-- Karl Merz

(in Music: A Book of Quotations,

edited by Herb Galewitz)

But as a child of twelve months old or less,

That laboreth his language to express,

Even so fare I, and therefore, I thee pray,

Guide thou my song which I of thee shall say.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

(in The Book of Uncommon Prayer,

edited by Constance and Daniel Pollock)

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

-- John Ruskin

(in Notations: Quotations on Music,

edited by Sallye Leventhal)

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening.

Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

-- Robert Schumann

(in Music: A Book of Quotations,

edited by Herb Galewitz)