Music: The Food of Love

Music is an inspiring tonic to the body and soul. Remember King Saul's encounter with the evil spirit- in the Bible- and how David quelled the King's troubled mind with music; touched his heart, healed and soothed his soul.

Great people and Philosophers knew the efficacy of music and they reflected foot-marks in the sand of our consciousness with great talks.

"Life is a song, sing it" Mother Teresa attested; while William Shakespeare recommended that "If music be the food of love; play on". So let the trend flow like the stream, let's follow some of the collection of inspirational quotes, proverbs, phrases and sayings on music.

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music."
~ Carlos Santana ~

In music the passions enjoy themselves
~Friedrich Nietzsche~

"Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same."
~ John Denver ~

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another.
~Frank Zappa ~

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
~Thomas Carlyle ~

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
~Henry Giles ~

It's a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
~ Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931) ~

Make a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
~Plato~

There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
~ Lord (George Gordon Noel) Byron English poet, 1788 - 1824 ~

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.
~George Gershwin~

What we play is life.
~Louis Armstrong~