"Do nobody no harm. Pay the thunder no mind. Listen to the birds." Eubie Blake

"Flower and song are the highest things on Earth that can penetrate the confines of truth." The Calmecac, Mayan sacred treatise

"Taking my zither I return to the deserted blue hills. The wind whistling through the pines fans my face. Since my spirit wanders outside the universe, Why should I bow low to great dukes and princes!" T'ang Yin (1470-1570)

"Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters; and as the voice of a great thunder; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: and they sang as it were a new song before the throne." Revelations: 14, 2-3

"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." Anonymous

"Men are fools if they think only humans respond to beauty. But a feeding deer will drop its food to listen to music, and a king cobra sway its head in pleasure." Gita Mehta, in A River Sutra

"…In the sounding of the harp there are three elements: the hand, the string, and art. In man, the body, the soul, and the shadow."
Alejo Carpentier, The Golden Legend

"My advice to anyone has always been to avoid black holes, because, once inside, it's extremely hard to climb out and still retain one's ear for music." Woody Allen

"…For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance: And when the folk there spy me, They will all come up to me, With 'Here is the fiddler of Dooney!' And dance like a wave of the sea." W.B. Yeats, The Fiddler of Dooney