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...

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...

I wish to compose sacred hymns so that the Word of God may swell among the people also by means of songs...

I would allow no man to preach or teach God’s people without a proper knowledge of the use and power of sacred song.

Martin Luther