Quotes About Music Aristotle

#1. Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.

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#2. Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

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#3. No," she said, answering his eyes. "I can never regret."[ ... ]"I can sorrow," she offered gently, "but it's not the same thing.

Peter S. Beagle

#4. Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

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#5. Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

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#6. It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

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#7. Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

Laurence Overmire

#8. Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

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#9. When things are going wrong declare constantly that you are not going to be afraid or intimidated by any outer condition.

Emmet Fox

#10. I wanted you to have your own life, apart from fear - even apart from me. I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#11. Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

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#12. The use of music for intellectual enjoyment in leisure;

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

Aristotle.

#14. Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

Aristotle.

#15. History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

Bernard DeVoto

#16. When we speak quietly one to another things somehow get settled.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#17. Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

Aristotle.

#18. Your whole vocabulary's played out, admit it.
Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it.

Redman