"The earth has music for those who listen." – William Shakespeare /|\ "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." – Ludwig van Beethoven \|/ "Do you know that your soul is composed of harmony?" – Leonardo da Vinci /|\ "If you want to know the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration." – Nikola Tesla \|/ "Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other in the integration of the human being because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated truly graceful." – Plato /|\ "Music is to me like breathing. I don’t get tired of breathing, so I don’t get tired of music!" – Ray Charles \|/ "Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without." – Confucius /|\ "Music is the art of the prophets and the gifts of God." – Martin Luther \|/ "One good thing about music is that when it hits you, you feel no pain." – Bob Marley /|\ "Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die." – Paul Simon \|/ "Music is a safe king of high." – Jimi Hendrix /|\ "Music is that voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows." – Napoleon Bonaparte \|/ "I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music." – Billy Joel /|\ "Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it’s important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity." – Ted Turner \|/ "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." – Aldous Huxley /|\ "Music is the universal language of mankind." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow \|/ "The power of music to integrate and cure … is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest non-chemical medication." – Oliver Sacks /|\ "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." – Victor Hugo \|/ "Music is the melody whose text is the world." – Arthur Schopenhauer /|\ "Alas for those who never sing, but die with all their music in them!" "Take 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 acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens." – Maria Augusta von Trapp /|\ "Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music." "The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe." – Hazrat Inayat Khan \|/ "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 is a therapy. It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient." – Yehudi Menuhin \|/ "To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul..." – Don G. Campbell /|\ "Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture." – Joseph Addison \|/ "Music is the medicine of the breaking heart." – Leigh Hunt /|\ "Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought." – E.Y. Harburg \|/ "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." – Robert Fripp /|\ "Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below." – John Addison \|/ "There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is." – William P. Merrill /|\ "At that elusive moment when we transcend our ordinary performance and feel in harmony with something else – whether it’s a glorious sunset, inspiring music or another human being – our studies have shown that what we are really coming in sync with is ourselves." – Doc Childre and Howard Martin \|/ "You can look at disease as a form of disharmony. And there’s no organ system in the body that’s not affected by sound and music and vibration." – Mitchell Gaynor, M.D. /|\ "Healing relies on an openness to the whole… and music, in its universal nature, is total communication." – Olivea Dewhurst-Maddock \|/ "Music offers a record of history and human experience that words and images cannot. … music has a unique ability to convey memory." – Marion Jacobson /|\ "At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time. Before we make music, music makes us." – Joachim-Ernst Berendt \|/ "If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic." – Vera Stanley Alder /|\ "Music is the vernacular of the human soul." – Geoffrey Latham \|/ "Our brains are wired from the beginning to process and understand music." – Kimberly Moore /|\ "Rhythm is the soul of life. The whole universe revolves in rhythm. Everything and every human action revolves in rhythm." – Baba Tunji \|/ "Just as certain selections of music will nourish the physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind." – Hal A. Lingerman /|\ "Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." – June Masters Bacher \|/ "There is a song reaching the whole earth, written from patience, love and prayer… Listen to it with the ear of your heart; let it go deep within." – Katharine Le Mée /|\ "Music has touched the human soul across all boundaries of time, space, and genre… music opens us to a greater appreciation of our essential connectedness to the cosmos." – Balfour M. Mount \|/