“Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.” MindStatesAgeDifferencesPleasureQualityConditionsMusic IsSeasonsSacredDistinctionProductiveTemperSecularAnguish Book:The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion
“Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.” ArtIdeasRealizingMusicConditionsMusic IsArtistic Author:Oscar Wilde
“Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man” MenMeanEndsConditionsMusic IsConcernMeans To An End Author:Abdullah Ibrahim
“Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.” Life IsMusicConditionsMusic IsIdealsUselessExtensionsUtility Author:George Santayana
“I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it.” ThinkingHumansChildrenHelpingMovingForceLove IsConditionsMusic IsHuman ConditionLifting Author:David Crosby
“It's amazing, it's pumping, it's furious, it's anxious, it's happy and it's far more real than anything you'll ever experience in a Western city. Morocco is a living, pulsating entity which is rapidly changing all the time but there are parts of Marrakesh that carry on as they have done for a thousands years. The music is a reflection of that, of all times and all religions and of all the natural expectations and conditions of the people who live there.” PeopleYearsRealDoneNaturalCitiesConditionsMusic IsReflectionExpectationsWesternAll TimeAnxiousEntityFuriousMorocco Author:Robert Plant