M Quotes
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“Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.”
“Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.”
“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”
“Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.”
“Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives.”
Source: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
“Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.”
Source: The wisdom of Confucius
“Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.”
“Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.”
“Music is the only art that actually lives.”
“Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.”
“Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.”
“Music is the only medicine I know of in which overdose is allowed. Its one sound has the power to mend millions of souls and refresh the hopeless at the same time.”
“Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.”
“Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.”
“Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.”
“Music is the only thing in the world that can block out madness, and can be consumed in the sadness, for it helps the soul survive even if only for a short time.”
“Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.”
“Music is the only thing keeping the planet together”
“Music is the only thing that doesn't hurt when it hits you.”
“Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.”
“Music is the only thing that you can share with a million million people and you don't lose, you gain. It helps you to get energy and to live long, because when your soul is very happy then you don't want to die.”
“Music is the outward and audible signification of inward and spiritual realities.”
Source: Saudades / Peter Warlock. 1923 [Leather Bound]
“Music is the pathway to the heart.”
“Music is the perfect metaphor for mathematics. If you find it hard to grasp reality in mathematical terms, you will find that you can make incredible progress by instead thinking of it in musical terms, ad you will end up at more or less the same destination.”
Source: The Musical Theory of Existence: Hearing the Music of the Spheres
“Music is the perfect reminder of our essence; the vibration of strings”
“Music is the perfect type of art.”
Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”
“Music is the poor man's Parnassus.”
“Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having an expressive function, it is opposed to drama, which even in its most refined forms still bears a social message and can only be 'put over' on the basis of an immediate and profound affinity with the values and expectations of its audience. The theatre divides its public and divides itself. The Parisian opposition between right-bank and left-bank theatr, bourgeois theatre and avant-garde theatre, is inextricably aesthetic and political.”
Source: Distinction
“Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.”
Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life
“Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.”
“Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.”
“Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.”
“Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.”
“Music is the school and the hospital of the emotions.”
“Music is the secret language that effortlessly connects our bodies, our minds, and our souls. I’m addicted to the lyrics— they speak to me in a way only he and I will understand. So, until it’s safe to speak my mind, I’ll speak to him through lyrics. I’m addicted to him. He’s a song I never want to end.”
Source: Where Hope Lies
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
“Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.”
“Music is the single most powerful medium in the world it transcends the universe and it is not confined by time or space, it is immortal.”
Source: WATCH & PRAY: ARE YOU READY
“Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.”
“Music is the softest cushion in the world.”
“Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.”
Source: Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary
“Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.”
Source: An autobiography
“Music is the soul of language.”
“Music is the sound of God, Nannerl. If given the talent, it means God has chosen you as an ambassador for His voice. Your music will be as if God has given you eternal life.”
Source: The Kingdom of Back
“Music is the soundtrack of our lives.”
“Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it's essential for our lives.”
“Music is the soundtrack of your life.”
“Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.”