Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human.  Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

-- Douglas Adams

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

-- Sarah Dessen

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

The way that the world is going, we're going to need more musicians.  Music and the arts are the most healing things in the world.

-- Dan DeLuca