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“Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.”

Light Spirit Heaven Music Celestial

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“All of heaven we have below.”

Author:Joseph Addison

“Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!”

Men Earth Heaven Music Lord Saint Bad Man

Author:Izaak Walton

“music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.”

Earth Heaven Effort Music Music Is Missionary

Author:Rebecca West

“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”

Men Art Inspiration Earth Given Heaven Music Music Is Angel Piano Art And Music Poetry And Music Spiritual Music

Author:Walter Savage Landor

“Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.”

“Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love; 40 With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre The streams stand still, the stones admire; The listening savages advance, The world and lamb around him trip The bears in aukward measures leap, And tigers mingle in the dance The moving woods attended as he played And Rhodope was left without a shade.”

“Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.”

Heaven Music Conditions Music Is Eternity Composer Thrill Identical Momentary

Book:Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker

Source: Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker

“There was passion, there was laughter The first morning after I just couldn't get my feet to touch the ground Everytime we were together We talked about forever I was certain it was Heaven We had found.”

Firsts Together Certain Passion Found Heaven Music Morning Forever Feet Laughter Morning After

Author:Lee Ann Womack

“He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle.”

Source: The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country: Two Classic Westerns

“In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.”

Heaven Music Rocks Solo Drummer

Author:Lin Brehmer

“Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.”

Kind Has Beens Said Universe Heaven Sound Music Harmony Tone Framed Without Music Seville Harmony In Music

Author:Isidore of Seville