M Quotes
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“Music makes an otherwise ordinary activity quite enriching.”
“Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken.”
Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain - that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights.”
“Music makes me come alive. I love to sing and dance! Watching a great movie with a great message.”
“Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. ~The Kreutzer Sonata”
Source: LEO TOLSTOY – The Ultimate Short Stories Collection: 120+ Titles in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Kreutzer Sonata, The Forged Coupon, Hadji Murad, Alyosha the Pot, Master and Man, Father Sergius, Diary of a Lunatic, The Cossacks, My Dream, The Young Tsar, Fables and Stories for Children...
“Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.”
“Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?”
“Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.”
“Music makes me want to dance but I'm not sure that's something anybody wants to observe.”
“Music makes my heart beat. The more i hear, sing and perform on stage my heart beats stronger than ever. I want to live like this until the day i die.”
“Music makes my soul happy.”
“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
Source: The Plays of Oscar Wilde
“Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“Music makes the people come together.”
“Music makes this moment a happy hour.”
“Music makes us forget the sadness of being alone.”
“Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.”
“Music makes you feel younger, more confident you can take on the world and the obstacles it throws at you.”
Source: Scorched Earth
“Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.”
“Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the realm of discourse about music, improvisation is marginal, but in the realm of doing it, it's omnipresent. Strange distinction here: we're improvising all the time, but when we tend to talk about music, we tend to talk about objects that are fixed, like recordings, scores, pieces.”
“Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.”
“Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.”
Source: Works
“Music may be his passion -- but this, right here, was his dream.”
Source: Accidentally Married on Purpose
“Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.”
Source: This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession
“Music may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening.”
“Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.”
“Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.”
“Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.”
“Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.”
Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier
“Music meant more to me than a social life and just hangin out. haha just being tired of repacking my suit case every couple of days, and anytime i wanted to cop some new clothes i would have to throw away something I had to make room in the suitcase.”
“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”
“Music melts the soul misery.”
“Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse”
Source: An expanded concept of timbre and its structural significance: with a timbral analysis of George Crumb's Night of the four moons
“Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.”
“Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.”
“Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.”
“Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.”
“Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.”
“Music moves the body, soul and spirit to the bliss.”
“Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.”
“Music must be seen, and dance must be heard”
“Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.”
“Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.”
Source: The Letters of Mozart and His Family
“Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.”
“Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.”
“Music my rampart, and my only one.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to create a musical work. All one thing is a bore - all dissonance, or all fatuous consonance. George Winston and Guns and Roses are two sides of the same worthless coin in my esthetic world.”
“Music needs to be felt to be heard.”
“Music needs to have a real sacred setting for people to understand it. You've got to start things off with friends who are like-minded or even strangers that are like-minded. Sending your music to established artists or labels or magazine, I mean there is something to be said for tenacity, for trying to pursue recognition that way, but it just doesn't make sense for the best work. And if you do make an amazing work, it's sometimes not the best way to be heard. You have to get on a sacred space, like a stage, and do your testifying that way.”
“Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?”