.  . There is only one true Song in the universe, the song of creation, refracted through us like a prisim, through the cycle of life and history, each a facet of the unheard Song, and each one bringing us closer to it.  . In these halls, the music is never stilled. . . Bards
Bards of Passion and of Mirth
Ye have left your souls on earth!
Have ye souls in heaven too?
                            -John Keats
. . Minstrels
A wandering minstrel I -
A thing of shreds and patches,
Of ballads, songs, and snatches,
And dreamy lullaby.
                        - W. S. Gilbert
.   . Musicians
We are the music makers,
    And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by love sea-breakers,
    And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
    On who the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
    Of the world forever it seems.
                    - Arthur O'Shaughnessy
.         Loreena McKennitt . .  Tori Amos  . .     Faith and the Muse .   .  Dead Can Dance  .   .   Switchblade Symphony .   .    Ani DiFranco