Importance of music Quote by J. Reuben Clark

Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other.

— Marvin Sapp

Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God in all…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Music is a form of prayer.

— Toru Takemitsu

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

— Anonymous

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

— Robert Browning

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

— William Shakespeare

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine.…

— Joan Osborne

So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the nearness of…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.

— Jon Fishman

Music is part of God's universe.

— Cat Stevens