Martin Luther Quotes About Music

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  • Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.

  • My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

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

  • Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

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  • As long as we live there is never enough singing.

    Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Lectures on Isaiah”
  • After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

    "Luther on Education in the Christian Home and School".
  • The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.

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  • A person whodoes not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.

  • I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

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  • 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.

  • I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  • Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.

    Martin Luther (1818). “The familiar discourses of dr. Martin Luther, tr. by H. Bell”, p.428
  • Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

  • We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. No greater commendation than this can be found — at least not by us. After all, the gift of language combined with the gift of song was only given to man to let him know that he should praise God with both word and music, namely, by proclaiming [the Word of God] through music.

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    "Liturgy and hymns".
  • Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

  • Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.

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