"Music is an outburst of the soul."

-- Frederick Delius

"Music is the great uniter.  An incredible force.  Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common."

-- Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

"Music . . . will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you."

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."

-- Lao Tzu