Beats Quote by Anonymous

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."

— Pete Seeger

Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young.

— Sextus Empiricus

“Music was alchemy. Music was sex. When it was right, when everything fit together just perfectly, it was better than any feeling he’d ever…

— Lauren Dane

Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was…

— Richard Rorty

Plato was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“[92] Plato, in his fourth book of Laws, says that the præfectures of music and gymnic exercises are the most important employments in the…

— Montesquieu

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be…

— Charles Ives

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“It should have been a harmless question, but music was a personal thing for him; sharing his favorites always felt so intimate, like pulling…

— Priscilla Glenn

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

— Plato

“Music was a balm for any weary soul. It could either lift a person out of the doldrums or comfort him if there was…

— Lisa Lewis

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero