M Quotes
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“Music is a kind of harmonious language.”
“Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end,
full of new paths to discover,
where mystery remains eternal”
“Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.”
“Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.”
“Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.”
“Music is a language of emotion. I'm passionate about it because I think it's the most direct way to connect to the things that are ineffable. Words just aren't necessary a good enough opportunity to express. Words are maybe less than accessible at expressing.”
“MUSIC IS A LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY MANKIND TO SPEAK WITH HIS SOUL”
“Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.”
“Music is a language that speaks to people emotions.”
“Music is a language, a universal language.”
“Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a couple of definitions you would be illiterate. If one limits oneself to a peculiar definition like 'new music,' 'avant-garde,' or something like that, I think it's like cutting out half the dictionary.”
“Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.”
“Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.”
“Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.”
“Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom.”
“Music is a mantra that soothes the soul...something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music.”
“Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.”
“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“Music is a means of rapid transportation.”
Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings
“music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.”
“Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but mankind is moved to devotion, virtue, joy, and sorrow.”
Source: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
“Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.”
“Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.”
“Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.”
“Music is a passion of mine. Im always listening, always learning.”
“Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.”
“Music is a performance and needs the audience.”
“Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.”
“Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.”
“Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.”
“Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living.”
Source: The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose
“Music is a potent energy force.”
“Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.”
“Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.”
“Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.”
“Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure. Through music, I've healed all the wounds I've had and celebrated all the good things in life. Through music, I turn things, good or bad, into energy.”
“Music is a reflection of who you are, and if those things that you mentioned are what your music is all about, then I guess that's who you are.”
“Music is a reflection of who you are.”
“Music is a reservoir... of sounds.”
“Music is a right, but only for those who deserve it!”
“Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.”
Source: Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.
“Music is a safe kind of high.”
“Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.”
“Music is a savage art, a measured madness.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.”
Source: Traite de l'harmonie reduites a ses principes naturels
“Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.”
“Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing”
“Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.”
“Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.”
“Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.”