Accepted Quote by Charles Ives

“Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ear lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are…

— Charles Ives

Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all…

— Plotinus

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

— Charles Ives

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

— Duke Ellington

The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other…

— Eduard Hanslick

Music is proof that beauty is deeper than looks.

— Hayley Williams

Ain't nothing quite as beautiful as music.

— Eyedea

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell…

— Roger Scruton

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

— John Fogerty

Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of…

— Yukio Mishima

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they…

— Hiromi