Best music-is & purpose Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.”

Giving Purpose Energy Force Powerful Music Is Stronger Mood Sunshine New Energy

Author:Michael Franti

“Dancehall music is perceived as party music, which it is because of the rhythm, but there are messages that do come through or a purpose of an artist saying something to the world. People usually don't get the messages because of the partying.”

People World Purpose Artist Party Messages Music Is Rhythm Dancehall

Author:Sean Paul

“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.”

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Book:Works

Source: Works

“Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.”

Thinking Men Giving Firsts Purpose Pleasure Music Is Principal Gift From God

Author:John Calvin

“Music is for people to hear, I can't think of anything else it could be for. Unless you believe in God, and I don't think God really would be all that interested. I'm sure when Bach wrote for the greater glory of God, he really didn't think that God was going to sit down at breakfast and listen to his cantatas. I think he meant for higher purposes than earning a living.”

People Thinking Believe I Can Would Be Purpose Greater Higher Music Is Glory Breakfast Believe In God Earning Glory Of God Higher Purpose Earning A Living

Author:Richard Meale

“As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing.”

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Author:Ziggy Marley

“The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.”

Art Age Form Purpose Term Style Music Is Enormous Eras Realms Classical Music

Author:David Finckel

“In our profession someone can be very brilliant and acquire total technical mastery. Yet in the last resort, the only thing that really counts is his quality as a human being. For music is created by Man for Man. And if someone sees nothing more than notes in it, this can perhaps be very interesting, but it cannot enrich him. And music should exist for one purpose only; to enrich Man and give him something he has lost in most respects.”

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Author:Herbert von Karajan

“I'm very careful with what I let my ear gate hear on my own. I don't care if I go out and something is playing that I wouldn't put on myself, that doesn't bother me but when I feed off and get nourishment from music, it's through things that are encouraging and lift me up, things that have integrity and purpose and that's what Christian Worship Music is all about.”

Ifs Care Christian Purpose My Own Integrity Worship Music Is Ears Careful Don't Care Lifts I Don't Care Bother Gates Nourishment Christian Worship Worship Music Lift Me Up

Author:Christian Hosoi

“[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.”

People Feels Mean Whole Home Remember Purpose Song Levels Emotion Music Is Excitement Concerts

Author:Van Morrison

“Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.”

Mind Pain Purpose Music Is Entertainment

Author:George Thorogood

“I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.”

Thinking Wells Purpose Pieces Music Is Significant Code Performers Composer Activate

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.”

Purpose Emotion Music Music Is Having Hope Sentient Beings

Book:Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980

Source: Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980

“Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.”

Men Purpose Order Given Music Music Is Including Sole Coordination Music Theory

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.”

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Author:Eddie Vedder

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