Ifs Quote by Confucius

“If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with the rites of propriety? If a man be…

— Confucius

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

— Confucius

Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass…

— Henry David Thoreau

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

— Confucius

A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.

— Raymond Carver

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

— Oscar Wilde

The one thing about music is that there are no rules.

— Enrique Iglesias

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

— Martin Luther

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

— Aristotle

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

— Plato

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in…

— Gavin Bryars

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

— A. R. Rahman