M Quotes
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“Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.”
Source: The path to the new music
“Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.”
Source: The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock): Early music
“Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. . . . All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written”
“Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.”
“Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.”
“Music is not a fucking soda. It is not a fucking insurance rate. It is not a fucking T-shirt. It is the only real religion that is worth devoting your soul to. It is the last remnant of the primal scream, the funeral dirge, and the wedding march. It is the light that keeps me out of the shadows, and it is the reason my immortal soul is not in dire straits.”
“Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.”
“Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one.”
“Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“Music is not a thing. It is part of human life, motivation for tough times, and it decides and changes the way we think.”
“Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.”
“Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.”
“Music is not disappearing. We are. And with us, the space where beauty once lived.”
“Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up.”
“Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.”
“Music is not just a gift from goddess to mortal; it is also a way to celebrate the divine, another kind of temple.”
Source: Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth
“Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.”
“Music is not just my passion it's my companion.”
“Music is not just sound — it is the ancient breath that heals, carrying the soul through unseen doors into the places it remembers to be whole again.”
“Music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up.”
“Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.”
Source: The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose
“Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.”
“Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.”
“Music is not my life. Christ is my life.”
“Music is not my life. My life is music.”
Source: Killosophy
“Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.”
“Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.”
“Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!”
Source: Finding Sky
“music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.”
“Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.”
“Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.”
“Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.”
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.”
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.”
“Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.”
“Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.”
“Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.”
“Music is often the spark that lights the fire of the soul.”
“Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.”
“Music is one big thing to me.”
“Music is one of my big interests - I once had a rather fanciful ambition to be a singer - and of course music is philosophically fascinating. What it is for music to express emotion strikes me as one of the most difficult questions - it's hard to say what it precisely means, although it plainly does mean something. But whenever I have tried to say something about this, it has come out as either banal or pretentious or both.”
“Music is one of my big orgasmic meters. I need it, I love it. I'm so happy when people bring it up because I love it. I need it.”
“Music is one of my greatest loves. I don't think I would be able to live without music in my life.”
“Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.”
“Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.”
“Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.”
Source: The familiar discourses of dr. Martin Luther, tr. by H. Bell
“Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.”
“Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.”
“Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.”
“Music is one of the most amazing things to me and it's an honor to connect with people through it.”