"To have joy, one must share it."
   – Lord Byron

"The only thing better than singing is more singing"
  – Ella Fitzgerald

"My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit
  is to blow that horn." 
   – Louis Armstrong
       (1901 - 1971)

"He who binds to himself a joy
 Does the winged life destroy
 But he who kisses the joy as it flies
 Lives in eternity's sun rise"
   – William Blake (1757-1827)

"If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch,
  you must first invent the universe."
   – Carl Sagan

"You better live every day like your last 
  because one day you’re going to be right."
   ~ Ray Charles

"I said:  what about my eyes?
   God said:  Keep them on the road.
 I said:  what about my passion?
   God said:  Keep it burning.
 I said:  what about my heart?
   God said:  Tell me what you hold inside it?
 I said:  pain and sorrow.
   He said: . . . stay with it.
 The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
   – Rumi

"Let go of the past.
 Let go of the future.
 Let go of the present.
 With a heart that is free, 
 cross over to that shore 
 which is beyond suffering."
   – Dhammapada 348

"Which of the two powers, Love or Music, 
can elevate a man to the most sublime heights? 
It is a great problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 
'Love can give no idea of music; but music can give an idea of Love.' 
Why separate them? 
They are the two wings of the soul."
   – Hector Berlioz

"Get into the habit of singing a tune.
   It will give you new life and fill you with joy.
Get into the habit of dancing.
   It will displace depression and dispel hardship."          
   – Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

"The greatest protection you can ever have is a loving heart."
   – Buddhist saying

"Dance like nobody's watching;
Love like you've never been hurt;
Sing like nobody's listening;
Live like it's heaven on earth."
   – Author unknown

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
  What else does a man need to be happy?
   – Albert Einstein

"... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is
love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs
only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person
here, another there, but to be love itself. "  
   – Mahatma Gandhi

"The most direct means for attaching ourselves to G*d from this material world is    through music and song."
   – Rebbe Nachman of Breslov