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| “ | Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. | ” |
| — Igor Stravinsky | ||
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| “ | Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. | ” |
| — Ludwig van Beethoven | ||
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| “ | Music conveys a prophetic message, revealing a higher form of life towards which mankind evolves. | ” |
| — Arnold Schoenberg | ||
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| “ | I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. | ” |
| — Olivier Messiaen | ||
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| “ | Without music, life would be a mistake. | ” |
| — Friedrich Nietzsche | ||
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| “ | Music is enough for a life — but a life is too short for music. | ” |
| — Richard Strauss | ||
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| “ | Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. | ” |
| — Jean Philippe Rameau | ||
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| “ | The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. | ” |
| — Pierre Boulez | ||
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| “ | Music, moody food of us that trade in love. | ” |
| — William Shakespeare | ||
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| “ | Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. | ” |
| — Alban Berg | ||
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| “ | I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me. | ” |
| — Frédéric Chopin | ||
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| “ | If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. | ” |
| — Gustav Mahler | ||
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| “ | And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. | ” |
| — Karlheinz Stockhausen | ||
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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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| “ | Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. | ” |
| — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ||
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| “ | My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. | ” |
| — Olivier Messiaen | ||
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| “ | Don't cry for me, for I go where music is born. | ” |
| — Johann Sebastian Bach | ||