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Music Quotes by Plato
- Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
- Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which…
- For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without…
- Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
- Philosophy is the highest music.
- Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it…
- Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well.…
- The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
- Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them,
- Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so…
- Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold…
- Music is a defining element of character.
- Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
- Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
- When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.
- What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
- Music is to the mind as air is to the body...
- Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.
- Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
- Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life…
- There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we…
- What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose
- Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
More Music Quotes
- I love recording music. — J. J. Abrams
- Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong