“Music unites all qualities: it can exalt us, divert us, cheer us up, or break the hardest of hearts with the softest of its melancholy tones. But its principal task is to lead our thoughts to higher things, to elevate, even to make us tremble… The musical art often speaks in sounds more penetrating than the words of poetry, and takes hold of the most hidden crevices of the heart… Song elevates our being and leads us to the good and the true.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
Tag: music
quote from Jason Isbell
“Art gets better when it is valued. Life is better with art.” —Jason Isbell, 3/2019
tweet from Neko Case
quote from Jimi Hendrix
“You see, music is so important. I don’t any longer dig the pop and politics crap. That’s old-fashioned. It was somebody’s personal opinion. But politics is old hat. Anyone can go round shaking babies by the hand and kissing the mothers, and saying that it was groovy. But you see, you can’t do this in music. Music doesn’t lie. I agree it can be misinterpreted, but it doesn’t lie. When there are vast changes in the way the world goes, it’s usually something like art and music that changes it. Music is going to change the world next time.” —Jimi Hendrix, 1970
quote from Roger Waters
“That’s why I call the show Us & Them, because I believe there is no ‘them.’ There’s only ‘us.'” —Roger Waters, June 2017
quote from a public internet forum
posted in a thread discussing the importance of music education in public schools:
quote from Billy Gibbons
“Our skin colours may vary, but what’s upstairs – there’s certain things we’ve all got in common.” –Billy Gibbons, 2011
quote from Albert Einstein
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician.
I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music…. I get most joy in life out of music.” –Albert Einstein
quote from Willie Nelson
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”—Willie Nelson, 2006
group singing
“As the popularity of group singing grows, science has been hard at work trying to explain why it has such a calming yet energizing effect on people. What researchers are beginning to discover is that singing is like an infusion of the perfect tranquilizer, the kind that both soothes your nerves and elevates your spirits.”