People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

-- Hafiz

The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination.

-- St. Ambrose 

 

Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.

-- William Shakespeare

 

Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul.

-- Martin Luther