Pythagoras Music Quotes

#1. To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement ... but therapy ... for actuating ... the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.

John Diamond

#2. There's a biological basis for music, and that biological basis is the similarity between music and speech," said Purves. "That's the reason we like music. Music is far more complex than [the ratios of] Pythagoras. The reason doesn't have to do with mathematics, it has to do with biology.

David Byrne

#3. Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every question.

Edgar Allan Poe

#4. In the 1960s, the Stanford historian Peter Laslett did a careful study of British marriage records and found that at no time in the recorded past did people regularly marry at very early ages. Between 1619 and 1660, for instance, 85 percent of women were nineteen

Bill Bryson

#5. I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

Paul Johnson

#6. Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

Adam Smith

#7. The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment

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#8. A stone is frozen music

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#9. If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much thinking you see going on, and it will put the most brilliant scientist to shame.

Alison Gopnik

#10. The will to prepare, the guts to risk, and the desire to be the best. These are trademarks of champions.

Dan Marino

#11. You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

A.R. Ammons

#12. I've laid down with love and woke up with lies. What's it all, worth only the heart can measure.

Stevie Nicks

#13. There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

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#14. What are my thoughts on this whole ordeal?" she repeated, pausing to contemplate. And then she thought of the perfect answer. "Ali didn't manage to kill us," she said. "She only made us stronger.

Sara Shepard

#15. Men are not listeners ... They hear what they expect to hear, or want to hear, or are certain they will hear, and women, being supple creatures trained to please, have often told them what we women knew would satisfy them. [p. 167]

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

#16. The stars in the heavens sing a music, if only we had ears to hear

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#17. When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,
dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

Henry Ward Beecher

#18. I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

Roald Dahl

#19. Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements

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