The human voice is the organ of the soul.

The organ is in my eyes and ears the king of all instruments.

The human voice may be denominated the music of the mind; language, a figurative mode of expressing our ideas and sentiments. The effects of flowing from this beneficent endowment are overwhelming in contemplation and almost infinite in extent. It is principally instrumental to all the moral and physical improvements of man, and enables him to pour forth his otherwise invisible, inaudible, unfathomable thoughts, to his fellow-man and to his God.

The purest way to communicate the human condition is through the beauty of music.

I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice,

But O! what art can teach,
What human voice can reach,
The sacred organ's praise?

I believe that music is God’s voice.

If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.

…the violin — that most human of all instruments…

Is there not An art, a music, and a stream of words That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Musical instruments are among the oldest human-made artifacts we have found. ...Music predates agriculture in the history of our species.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.