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“There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.”

Art Film Form Common Emotion Music Intellect

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”

Source: The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works

“Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.”

People World Important Helping Together Humanity Force Peace Common Acting Music This World Preserves Great Power Wedges Common Humanity

Author:Ted Turner

“I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.”

Kind Mean School Common Music Planets Degrees Jazz Indian Jazz Music Improvisation Common Ground Soulful Funky Jazz And Blues Jazz Improvisation Indian Music

Author:John McLaughlin

“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”

People Force Peace Common Music Music Is Incredibles Great Music Just Listen Music Life Music Is Life

Book:Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own.”

People World Song Found Common Music Land I've Learned Oppressed

Author:Paul Robeson

“We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at.”

Life I Can Science Language Goal Common Music Affection Manifestation Genes Splendid Spectacular Usefulness Common Goal

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.”

Knows Mean Ends Common Music Disease Musician

Book:The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Eyery man out of his humor. Cynthia's revels. The poetaster

Source: The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Eyery man out of his humor. Cynthia's revels. The poetaster

“I think the kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one.”

Thinking Needs Common Music Mouths Appreciate Chocolate Chips Cookies Chocolate Chips Chocolate Chip Cookies Kazoos

Author:Wally Amos

“A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.”

Common Music Albums Concerts

Author:Klaus Schulze

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