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Musical Quotations Submitted by JoeM on Thu, 2006-05-25 17:03.
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do."
--Elvis Costello
" Without music, life would be a mistake."
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"MUSIC is the shorthand of emotion."
--Leo Tolstoy
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
--Frank Zappa
"Music that does not SURGE is not great music."
--Carl Ruggles
"Music is the silence between the notes."
--Claude Debussy
"When the music of a state changes, the constitution will change too."
--Daimon
"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 not polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music."
--Eric Hoffer
"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtues."
--Plato
"Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore
be introduced into the education of the young."
- - Aristotle
"Where words fail, music speaks."
-- Hans Christian Andersen
"Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity
upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed,
and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous."
-- Yehudi Menuhin
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,
'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.'
And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'
My answer to that would be, 'No.'"
-Aaron Copland
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