The Jewish Wisdom Database

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Where there's music, pour not out talk.

As a seal of carnelian on a necklace of gold is a concert of music at a banquet of wine.

Music is a universal language, and needs not be translated. With it soul speaks to soul.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Music is prayer.

O Music! miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet, and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ, and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

The essence of music is a revelation...It is spirit, yet in need of time, rhythm; it is matter, yet independent of space.

Music evokes he spirit of prophecy.

There are palaces that open only to music.

In the high spheres there are temples which may be opened only with song.

This song shall testify before them as a witness.

Sing, O heaven, be joyful, O earth, and break forth into singing, O mountains!

The morning stars sang together.

Nature is saturated with melody; heaven and earth are full of song.

The whole world is nothing more than a singing and a dancing before the Holy One, blessed be He. Every Jew is a singer before Him, and every letter in the Torah is a musical note.

The inner history of a people is contained in its songs.

Through true song one may rise to the power of prophecy.

All melodies come from the source of sanctity.

O sing unto the Lord a new song.

I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live.

Every people has its own melody...But Israel sings all of them, in order to bring them all to God.

When does a Jew sing? When he's hungry.