"Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends."

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."

"If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die."

"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."

"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."

"Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport."