Top 91 Music And Philosophy Quotes
#1. Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.
George Carlin
#2. I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too ... I tried to taste it, but it did not work.'
Mitch Hedberg
#3. The Greeks' sculpture and athletics celebrated the human form, their literature and music human passion, their discourse and philosophy human reason. In
Steven Pressfield
#4. I believe hip hop's characteristic beliefs as a whole are misunderstood, underappreciated and highly underestimated.
Carlos Wallace
#5. Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic music; we did not have it in Tibet.
Frederick Lenz
#6. Music can touch and heal that secret wound of the soul which nothing else can reach.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do.
Debasish Mridha
#8. The music and the philosophy feed off of one another on a subconscious level, though I've never really integrated my academic teaching into songwriting. But what they have in common is that they're both ways to tap into the mysterious parts of our world.
Steve Weinstein
#9. Let us dance with passion. Our hearts will be dancing with joy and the magic of the music.
Debasish Mridha
#10. I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.
Ziggy Marley
#11. The '60s weren't my cup of tea. I never bought that philosophy that, you know, we're all brothers and that'll solve everything. And I never believed that music dictated the times. I always thought it reflected them.
Phil Everly
#12. Music is the sweetest language for hearts, kindest prayer for souls, peaceful breeze for minds, and a magical sail for imaginations.
Debasish Mridha
#13. You need to make the music strong, and the philosophy behind the music has to be solid. What the music exudes, what it emits, has to be very strong. It's your thinking that brings you things in life. Part of my philosophy to exceed starts right there.
David S. Ware
#14. Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Through my writing, I want to build an "immortal fountain of love" where everyone can come to dance and enjoy the colorful "flow of joy" and sing along with the music of love.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Uncomplicated joy and sorrow is not matter for philosophy, but rather for the simpler kinds of poetry and music.
Bertrand Russell
#17. Everyone can understand music which is the universal language of love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#18. Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Music is healing and soothing. It is the universal language of kindness and love.
Debasish Mridha
#20. One had to know Plato personally to appreciate the love he suppressed puritanically for the music, poetry, and drama he censured in his philosophy and censored in his model communities. They moved him too deeply.
Joseph Heller
#21. It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.
Noah Levine
#22. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Michel De Montaigne
#23. Great music is a great remedy for depression, but you have to drink it in with your heart and mind.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
Thomas Sowell
#25. He's a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
The Beatles
#26. A tree sings to us with her beauty and her love. It is our responsibility to listen to her music.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
Oscar Wilde
#28. Kindness is the music that softens every heart and fills it with ineffable joy.
Debasish Mridha
#29. Nature has its own music, own song, if only we have time to listen and a heart to understand.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. Music fills the gap between the conscious and the subconscious mind with endless joy and bliss.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Philosophy is the song of conscience and music the of thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#33. The pianokeys are black and white
but they sound like a million colors in your mind
Maria Cristina Mena
#34. Beauty of music enlightens the soul and fills it with ecstasy.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Music is the language of the soul, the voice of the heart, and a message from the eternity.
Debasish Mridha
#37. When I was looking at the moon, I saw your eyes looking at me. I felt lights of love softly touching me, in the silence I heard your sweet music of joy, and then I got lost in your love.
Debasish Mridha
#38. If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.
Anthony Hopkins
#39. Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.
George Santayana
#40. Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life.
Debasish Mridha
#41. One of the best things about humans is we recognize patterns, so we get things like science, music, philosophy. One of the worst things is that we see patterns that are not there so we get things like racism, homophobia and Jerry Falwell.
James Marsters
#42. Philosophy is the music of a judgmental mind and imaginative heart.
Debasish Mridha
#43. True music begins when the song of your soul finds its tune and the emotions of your heart find their voices.
Debasish Mridha
#44. I'm trap in marriage with gangsta rhyme and my street life.
Kjiva
#45. I had a teacher's degree and a degree in Oriental Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. I thought I was going to India to study but all of a sudden, I had a career in music. It really surprised me.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
#46. Music and art and philosophy are ultimately based on the premise that this man on his tractor, and these pigs, and the swarms of bees that fertilise the crops, will all continue to do what they do.
Alexander McCall Smith
#47. Live a life like a beautiful song, touch every heart with loving words and memorable music.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Sometimes we focus too much on the lyrics that we forget to dance to the music. And sometimes we dance to the music and don't listen to the lyrics. Let the rhythm guide you. Let the lyrics inspire you.
Alexa Anderson
#49. Your voice is the sweetest music and the sound of your smile is the ecstasy of my life.
Debasish Mridha
#50. Because it exists as a living sonority, music is animated by voices, and these voices do not evaporate when music confronts the insights of contemporary literary criticism, or philosophy of language.
Carolyn Abbate
#51. My heart dances with joy and sings with passion when it hears the music of love.
Debasish Mridha
#52. I have to learn to hear music, to see beauty, and to find joy in silence
Debasish Mridha
#54. I call him truly learned who brings everything to bear on the truth, so that from geometry, music, grammar, and philosophy itself, culling what is usefule, he guards the faith against assault.
Clement Of Alexandria
#55. Ours is a very eclectic offering. We're affiliated with the church but we're not just offering church music. Our philosophy is that we wanted to bring quality music to the entire valley and let everyone enjoy it since we have a fine venue.
John Wright
#56. The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.
Noah Levine
#57. Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#58. I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate one another in the way I've come to think they do in this case.
Philip Kitcher
#59. I express through my music my philosophy, my feelings, my passion, my dreams, my fears, my hopes, my wishes and my expectations. Without music, I would be mute, like a fish without water, like a bird without wings like a human being without air.
Ricardo Derose
#60. Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights.
Debasish Mridha
#61. The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.
T. S. Monk
#62. As regards my own 'philosophy,' I continue to be inspired by the music, liturgy and architectural tradition of the Anglican Church in which I was brought up. No one can fail to be uplifted by great cathedrals - such as that at Ely, near my home in Cambridge.
Martin Rees
#63. Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy.
Debasish Mridha
#64. Life is a song. Your thoughts are the music. Now play beautiful music and sing a wonderful song.
Debasish Mridha
#65. My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
Gary Wright
#66. Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
Plato
#67. I enjoy the healing music and touch of love, touching my heart and soul when I give it away.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Smiles are the dance of our soul,
with the music of love,
to express the beauty of mind,
for the happiness of spirit,
and for the joy of the world.
Debasish Mridha
#69. 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.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#70. Music has infinite power to reach the gap between the heart and the soul to create infinite and ineffable joy.
Debasish Mridha
#71. I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.
Paul Nurse
#72. Music is the language of the soul. It touches our deepest perceptions of being. Everyone understands music in his or her own way. Even animals understand music and respond to it with deep appreciation and love.
Debasish Mridha
#73. I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
A.R. Rahman
#74. Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#75. Music expresses those thoughts and words, which have no form but have longing for love.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace.
Debasish Mridha
#77. You might call them the icing on "life's cake," but music, laughter and the enjoyment of eating are the toppings that flavor everyday living. These added accents or accessories do spice up the cake. If served without, life would be rather bland!
Wes Adamson
#78. In the center of your being there is a fountain of music and that is your love.
Debasish Mridha
#79. But ignorance of divine revelation affects all of thought and life, from one's view toward history and philosophy, to one's interpretation of music and literature, to one's understanding of mathematics and physics.
Vincent Cheung
#80. Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
Bob Dylan
#81. Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.
Emeril Lagasse
#82. Music will inevitably get you into Philosophy, and once you logically see that through, will end up getting you into Theology. Once you see that through, it will end up getting you to a simple place of being happy with yourself and everybody around you.
Gino Vannelli
#83. Hip hop music (and the entire category) is one of few that unite fans of all colors, races, religions, socio-economic backgrounds, ages and genders.
Carlos Wallace
#84. With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.
Robert Bringhurst
#85. My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.
Betty Who
#86. Let us play the flute of love to spread the music of peace, joy and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#87. I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning
Plato
#88. Hope is the dance of the spirit.
Mind is the stage and imagination is the music.
Debasish Mridha
#89. Yoga is the dance of every cell with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity and harmony.
Debasish Mridha
#90. I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#91. The heavenly sound of music kindles my heart, twinkles my mind, and feeds my soul so that I may transcend and transform.
Debasish Mridha
