Felix Mendelssohn Quotes

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

I think all music is a gift from God.

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.

Music is a talent given to me by God. A medium and a platform and a way to spread a message of righteousness... a message of love, a message of unity.

You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.

I also believe my musical abilities are a true gift from God.

For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books that comes from Him and goes out to my reading audience. I'm forever grateful for that. It's a privilege.

I'm probably at my least religious I've ever been in a while. When you're moved by music, that's always good. But I haven't been talking to God too much lately.

Sincere composers believe in God.

So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.

Music is a religion to me and my friends.

If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit has to be made alive - that's the real part, the part that God speaks to.