“Yes; as the music changes,
Like a prismatic glass,
It takes the light and ranges
Through all the moods that pass;
Dissects the common carnival
Of passions and regrets,
And gives the world a glimpse of all
The colours it forgets.”
--Alfred Noyes
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"Performing good music, for me, has been like opening the back door to my heart and unexpectedly discovering a princess inside."
--Cami Shaskin

“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”
--Robert Schumann
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“For heights and depths no words can reach, music is the soul’s own speech.”
--Attr. to Anita Robertson
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“The true artist is not proud, he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal; and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.”
--Beethoven, Beethoven’s Letters
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“The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.”
-- President Harold B. Lee, in Conference Report, Apr. 1973, 181
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“In the Church we need better music and more of it, and better speaking and less of it.”
--Adam S. Bennion of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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“If I were not a physicist I would probably be a musician.”
--Albert Einstein
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Pablo Casals, world-famous cellist, was asked why he continued to practice four or five hours every day at the age of eighty-three. “Because I think I am making progress,” he responded.
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“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
--Plato
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“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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“Amateurs practice until they get it right; professionals practice until they can't get it wrong.”
--Attr. to music professor Harold Craxton
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“Where words fail, music speaks.”
--Hans Christian Andersen
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"To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable."
--Ludwig Van Beethoven
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“There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.”
--Brigham Young
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