For what else are the servants of God than His singers, whose duty it is to lift up the hearts of men and move them to spiritual joy?

-- St. Francis of Assisi
(in The Essential Wisdom of the Saints,
edited by Carol Kelly-Gangi)

In the fallen state of consciousness, each human being functions in disregard of the Song of Life that is going on in others.  There is no harmony, no direction, no arrangement.  You are like the random notes of an orchestra before the conductor unifies the instruments in symphony.  The Grand Conductor is calling everyone to attention . . .

-- Ken Carey
(in Divine Sparks:  Collected Wisdom of the Heart,
edited by Karen Speerstra)

Music is God's best gift to man, the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to heaven.

-- Walter Savage Landor

(in Music: A Book of Quotations,

edited by Herb Galewitz)

Inspiration seeks the artist as the artist seeks inspiration.

-- Jane Roberts

(in Divine Sparks: Collected Wisdom of the Heart,

edited by Karen Speerstra)