“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.”
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“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”
“Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.”
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”
“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.”
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
“Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.”
“Music is my religion.”
“You are the music while the music lasts.”
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
“Philosophy is the highest music.”
“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
“Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.”
“A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.”
“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
“When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.”
“At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.”
“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.”
“We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.”
“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.”
“But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.”