Neat Quotes

Here are some neat music quotes my choir director emailed us after our holiday concert on Sunday:

"Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a
tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neuroligical patients,
music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to
movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a
necessity" - Oliver Sacks

"God sent his singers upon earth with songs of sadness and of mirth, that they might touch the hearts of mankind and bring them back to heaven again." -Longfellow

"The feeling of singing and expressing one's own inmost thoughts through the words and music of two great artists, the poet and the composer, is a great thrill. Then, when you do it with other people, you become part of a group, so that literally what you produce is greater than the sum total of all the individual efforts. It's rather a great thing." -Howard Swan


For the common things of every day,
God gave us speech in the common way.
For deeper things we think and feel,
God gave the poets words to reveal.
But for the heights and depths no words can reach,
God gave us music, the soul's own speech.
- Anonymous


Here's another neat one I discovered recently:

"I just want to be a Nobody, willing to tell Everybody,
that there is Somebody, who can save Anybody."
-Melvin Graham (Billy's brother)