God Hates Musical Instruments in Worship

Do you wish to see that God hates worship paid with kettledrums, with lyres, with harps, and other instruments? God said: "Take away from me the sound of your songs and I will not hear the canticle of your harps." (Amos 5:23) If God said: "Take them away from me," do you run to listen to their trumpets? ... Do you wish to learn that, together with the sacrifices and the musical instruments and the festivals and the incense, God also rejects the temple because of those who enter it? He showed this mostly by his deeds, when he gave it over to barbarian hands, and later when he utterly destroyed it. Fathers of the Church, St. John Chrysostom, Discourses Against Judaizing Christians, translated by Paul W. Harkins, Discourse I, section VII, paragraphs 2 and 4 (pp. 26 and 27)