George Fox and his followers were of opinion, that it could not be admitted in a system of pure Christianity.
The modern Quakers have not differed from their predecessors on this subject; and therefore music is understood to be prohibited throughout the society at the present day.
It will doubtless appear strange that there should be found people, to object to an art, which is capable of being made productive of so much pleasurable feeling, and which, if it be estimated either by the extent or the rapidity of its progress, is gaining in the reputation of the world.

But it may be observed that "all that glitters is not gold." So neither is all, that pleases the ear, perfectly salubrious to the mind.
There are few customs, against which some argument or other may not be advanced: few in short, which man has not perverted, and where the use has not become, in an undue measure, connected with the abuse.
Providence gave originally to man a beautiful and a perfect world.

He filled it with things necessary and things delightful.

And yet man has often turned these from their true and original design.

The very wood on the surface of the earth he has cut down, and the very stone and metal in its bowels he has hewn and cast, and converted into a graven image, and worshipped in the place of his beneficent Creator.