Palestrina Quotes

“It was Plato who said: "The movement of sounds so as to reach the soul for the education of it in virtue we know not how, we call music”
― Zoe Kendrick Pyne, Palestrina: His Life and Times

“Here is a picture of the family of the great musician which does him infinite credit. In the midst of his own incessant work he yet saw to it that his sons received the necessary education for taking up a good position in life. "Most excellent musician and player on all sorts of instruments " might be expected, but "a good logician and philsopher" suggests culture and refinement beyond the ordinary.”
― Zoe Kendrick Pyne, Palestrina: His Life and Times