The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.