" Music produces the kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. " Confucius (bc.551-479)

" The Man that hath no music in himself, nor is not mov'd with concords of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; Let no such man be trusted."
W. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice (1597)

" Barbershop quartet singing is four guys tasting the holy essence of four individual mechanisms coming into complete agreement."
Meridith Willson

" Music is the universal language of mankind."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82), Outre-Mer