909 private quotes tagged music

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” — Frank Zappa

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“Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.” — John Lennon

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“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” — Frank Zappa

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“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.” — Frank Zappa

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“Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.” — Carl Jung

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“You are the music while the music lasts.” — T. S. Eliot

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“Philosophy is the highest music.” — Plato

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“Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.” — Martin Luther

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“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” — Plato

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“Music is my religion.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” — Igor Stravinsky

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“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.” — Plato

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“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.” — Albert Camus

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“Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.” — Plutarch

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“I call architecture frozen music.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” — Victor Hugo

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“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.” — David Bowie

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“You can't really imagine music without technology.” — Brian Eno

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“Music for me, it demands full concentration.” — Paulo Coelho

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“Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.” — Brian Eno

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“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.” — John Mayer

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“But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.” — Bryan Ferry

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