M Quotes
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“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.”
Source: Musicophilia
“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.”
Source: Musicophilia
“Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.”
Source: Truthseeker
“Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.”
Source: Poetry and Tales
“Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.”
“Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and becomes one of Satan 's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls.”
“Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.”
“Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.”
“Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!”
“Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.”
Source: A Writer's Notebook
“Music-making as a means of getting money is hell”
“Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, I guess I like a lot of 70's music.”
“Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast
“Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade. Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.”
“Music. I could not go without that. My mind would not let me be without music. I hiked the trail in 1995 - before there were iPods or music on our cell phones or even cell phones. So I was truly out there with just my thoughts. After a few days there was a continuous loop of songs playing silently in my mind.”
“Music. I live it and breathe it. It wakes me up in the morning, puts me to sleep at night and is with me all day.”
“Music. – There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough: but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do: it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings into us; it melts us to tears, we know not how: – it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words; just as divine, just as blessed.”
“Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.”
Source: Works
“Music... is the shaping of the invisible.”
“Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”
“Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.”
“Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.”
Source: The Sky Is Everywhere
“Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.”
“Music? All kinda music. I don't just listen to one thing; I listen to everything.”
“Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it’s boring? You don’t have time for it?”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.”
“Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.”
“Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.”
“Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.”
Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play
“Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!”
Source: Songs
“Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.”
“Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.”
“Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.”
“Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual.”
“Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them”
“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.”
Source: The Republic
“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.”
“Musical integrity means a lot to me, personally for myself, I don't really care if other people can't even sing or whatever. For myself I have high standards.”
“Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.”
“Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.”
Source: An Ideal Husband
“Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.”
Source: On Conducting
“Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.”
“Musical shows are really popular because there are lots of talented kids out there that can sing and dance.”
“Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It doesn't exist; it's ridiculous.”
“Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.”
“Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.”
“Musical theatre is my first love.”
“Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.”
“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”
Source: The Republic