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“Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.”

Purpose Humanity Music

Author:Pablo Casals

“Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.”

Should Mean Long Art Ends Spirit Purpose Beauty Music Painting Drama Art Is Realism Idealism Attainment Inner Life Subservient

Author:Julia Marlowe

“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

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”

“We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.”

Art Purpose Nations Quality Music Civilization Art Is Tests Jazz Musical Distraction Interruptions Notes Music

Author:John F. Kennedy

“What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.”

Ifs Purpose Night Language Music Darkness Musical

Book:Divisadero

Source: Divisadero

“Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.”

Purpose Music Response Driven

Author:David Crosby

“Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.”

Mind Art Happens Purpose Music Quiet Sober Accord

Author:John Cage