Music must rank as the highest of the fine arts -- as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

-- Herbert Spencer

A sense of the universe, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music -- these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.  Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

-- Khalil Gibran

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

-- Malcolm Arnold