Add Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Our industry holds a musical perception about each emotion that we depict in our narrative. As music composers, our job is either to cater…

— Amaal Mallik

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later…

— Igor Stravinsky

“Music is the emotions that words can not express.”

— Shannon L. Alder

As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made as to what the…

— Edgar Cayce

The most visceral expression of emotion in music.

— Milo Aukerman

Music can be thought of as a type of perceptual illusion in which our brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds.…

— Daniel Levitin

If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing…

— Jean-Jacques Nattiez

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point…

— Levi Strauss

Music can inspire immediate emotional reactions, even if the only person who hears it is the person creating it.

— Hilary Hahn

Music is made from the heart and the mind. It is every emotion a human being can convey.

— Travis Benton

As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made regarding what emotions are…

— Edgar Cayce