Wisdom of Music
for
Creating Community

"Use what talents you have;
the woods would have little music
if no birds sang their song except those who sang best."
Reverend Oliver G. Wilson
"Music will save the world."
Pablo Casals (1876-1973)
"When I hear music, I fear no danger, I am invulnerable, I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times and to the latest."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
American author, naturalist, social innovator
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and
can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
Anonymous
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881)
and from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
"People become the music they hear and the music they create."
Anonymous
"Do any of us really know what music is? Is it merely physics?
Mathematics? The stuff of romance, or of commerce?
Why is it so important to us? What is its essence?"
Sting (1951-     )
British rock musician
"Music is the hidden mathematical endeavor of
a soul unconscious it is calculating."
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
German inventor of calculus
"Without music life would be a mistake."
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
German philosopher, poet
"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy;
but most importantly music, for
in the patterns of music and all the arts are
the keys of learning."
Plato (428-348 BC)
Greek mathematician, philosopher
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music is the electrical soil in which.
the spirit lives, thinks, and invents."
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
German composer, pianist
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.
It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain.
Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
English novelist, journalist




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