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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is su
Steven Halpern in MUSIC
Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.
H. R. Haweis in MUSIC
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as in
Sir John Herschel in MUSIC
I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
Hermann Hesse in MUSIC
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music
Eric Hoffer in MUSIC
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes in MUSIC
Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.
James G. Huneker in MUSIC
The history of a people is found in its songs.
George Jellinek in MUSIC
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel in MUSIC
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
James Weldon Johnson in MUSIC
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
Samuel Johnson in MUSIC
It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Samuel Johnson in MUSIC
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Ben Jonson in MUSIC
Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
Geoffrey Latham in MUSIC
I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
John Lennon in MUSIC
Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at
Claude Levi-Strauss in MUSIC
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the c
Claude Levi-Strauss in MUSIC
Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.
Hal A. Lingerman in MUSIC
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
Martin Luther in MUSIC
Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.
Martin Luther in MUSIC
We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others
Greil Marcus in MUSIC
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken in MUSIC
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
John Milton in MUSIC
Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.
Theodore Mungers in MUSIC
Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.
Richard Neville in MUSIC
A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.
Ernest Newman in MUSIC
Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche in MUSIC
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
Friedrich Nietzsche in MUSIC
I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.
Richard M. Nixon in MUSIC
I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
James Taylor in MUSIC
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