If doctrine strengthens our minds, and other music quotes

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“If doctrine strengthens our minds, psalm-singing fortifies our souls.” -- From “Psalm Roar” website

“Some Christians listening to a subset of their number sing is nowhere commanded or exampled in New Testament churches.” -- Mark Dever

“I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God.” -- Martin Luther

“Though the open-throated harmonies violate every rule of classical counterpoint, there’s an anarchic spirit and an invigorating sense of energy about shape-note singing.” -- Alfred Hickling

“We sing because we’re created to, commanded to, and compelled to.” -- Keith Getty

“Your voice may not be of professional standard, but it is of confessional standard.” -- Keith Getty

“What do you want to remember when you’ve forgotten virtually everything else? Sing that.” -- Chad Bird

“Leading worship is a pastoral role before it’s a musical one.” -- Bob Kauflin

“Gospel music is not a sound; gospel music is a message. Gospel music means good news. It’s good-news music.” -- Kirk Franklin

“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.” -- Johann S. Bach

“Cheerfulness is like music to the soul, it excites to duty, it oils the wheels of the affections.” -- Thomas Watson

“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.” -- Van Morrison

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” -- Leopold Stokowski