M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.”
“Music can be a demanding Goddess who calls Her purest to Her altar and possessed him utterly.”
Source: Gossamer Axe
“Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can't do.”
“Music can be all things to all men. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction... It is as if the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands.”
“Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.”
“Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.”
Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas
“Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.”
“Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.”
“Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.”
“Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.”
“Music can be the medium of sharing experience in a purified and heightened form; but it can also make being alone a stirring and highly privileged place to be.”
Source: Scorched Earth
“Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.”
“Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.”
“Music can change lives. Whether you are having a good or bad day, the power of music can change one's mood.”
“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
“Music can change the world.”
“Music can conjure up many contrasting emotions. It can take you from heartbreak and darkness to implicit happiness in the effortless change of a beat.”
“Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.”
“Music can get us through difficult patches in our lives by changing not only how we feel about ourselves, but also how we feel about everything outside ourselves.”
Source: How Music Works
“Music can give you your dreams. It will teach you hard work, it will break your heart and make you so happy, you can't stand it. . . .I don't think I'd have been president if it hadn't been for music.”
“Music can help you through any kind of emotion. It can help you through a break-up, make you dance, or help you realize or understand something about yourself... and if I can sing a song and make someone feel those things then I will feel like I have made a difference.”
“Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.”
Source: Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987
“Music can influence thoughts, words, and emotions, so choose the things you want to put in your head.”
“Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.”
“Music can lead people to greater health and happiness.”
“Music can lift our feet and hearts right off the ground and transport us to a special place, all our own.”
Source: Lead Us To A Place: Your Spiritual Journey Through Life's Seasons
“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.”
“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.”
“Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people together. Music is truly an international language, and I hope to contribute by widening communication as much as I can.”
“Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.”
“Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.”
“Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.”
“Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.”
Source: Migraine
“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
Source: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard
“Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.”
Source: The Works of Joseph Addison
“Music can really affect the intensity of a workout. I love having it during cardio especially.”
“Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.”
“Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.”
“Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.”
Source: Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within
“Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.”
“Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.”
“Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy.”
“Music can't change the world.”
“Music can't save the world, but can make one a little calmer.”
“Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.”
“Music careerists from Seattle would typically move to the closest media center, which was L.A.”
“Music Carrie's a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.”
“Music carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.”
“Music causes us to think eloquently.”
“Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life.”