Good Quotes on Music/Singing

A couple good old quotes that Bob Kauflin shared during his message "Words of Wonder: What Happens When We Sing?"

"When man's natural musical ability is whetted and polished to the extent that it becomes an art, then do we note with great surprise the great and perfect wisdom of God in music, which is, after all, His product and His gift; we marvel when we hear music in which one voice sings a simple melody, while three, four, or five other voices play and trip lustily around the voice that sings its simple melody and adorn this simple melody wonderfully with artistic musical effects, thus reminding us of a heavenly dance, where all meet in a spirit of friendliness, caress and embrace. A person who gives this some thought and yet does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs." – Martin Luther....oh Martin Luther.....lol

"Sing lustily and with good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead or half asleep. But lift up your voice with strength. Be no more afraid of your voice nor ashamed of its being heard than when you sung the songs of Satan." – John Wesley [I take "songs of Satan" to simply be his old fashioned term for non-Christian music...so sing out loud and unabashedly like you do to Cotten Eyed Joe at a wedding dance....]