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He who sings, prays twice.
-Saint Augustine

Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation. (Ensign, November 1994)
-Boyd K. Packer

Music enhances every situation of our lives. During difficult times, music makes the burden easier. In happy times, music enhances our happiness. And as Elder Boyd K. Packer notes, "We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly." As we allow it, the Spirit of the Lord does soften and tune our hearts through worthy music.
-Janice Kapp Perry

We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.
-J. Reuben Clark

I wonder sometimes if we realize the importance of music. I wonder if we know that the Lord himself is concerned about it. He has given us the information that the song of praise is a prayer unto him.… I would like to call attention to the fact that in our day our Heavenly Father has given a revelation, teaching us that it is our privilege, yea, our blessing, to sing, and that our songs should be sung in righteousness.
-George Albert Smith

Music is with us almost everywhere we go. It can't touch us but can lift us up and bring us down. It often guides our actions. It may seem harmless, but can affect us in ways we can and can't control. (The New Era, August 1991)

Let there be music in the home. If you have teenagers who have their own recordings, you will be prone to describe the sound as something other than music. Let them occasionally hear something better. Expose them to it. It will speak for itself. More of appreciation will come than you may think. It may not be spoken, but it will be felt, and its influence will become increasingly manifest as the years pass.
-Gordon B. Hinckley