Tag: music

Daily dance uplift the soul to spiritual realms....

If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the...

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things...

The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: “Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends....

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn’t know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness....

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note....

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart....

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you....

songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic… whatever the case, it wasn’t that I was anti-popular culture or anything and...

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself....