“Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.”

“Even free spirits had to the face the music sometime.”

“I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”

“A theology that cannot be sung is not worth having.... Authentic Christian faith is not merely believed. Nor is it merely acted upon. It is sung - with utter joy sometimes, in uncontrollable tears sometimes, but it is sung.”

“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.”

“Substitution . . . the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image.”