Communal Quote by Daniel Levitin

I never really thought of music as a particularly social thing. I experienced music through recordings as opposed to concerts. It just makes you…

— David Longstreth

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing,…

— E. O. Wilson

Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest choral music…

— Edgard Varese

A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

— Curt Sachs

Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a…

— Daniel Levitin

It's quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn't loud music. A live event that enables…

— Tim Crouch

Music is a social act.

— Bill Callahan

Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the spirit of nature and the spirit of the universe.

— Goa Gil

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

— Michael Tippett

We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively. We thought…

— Aleksey Igudesman

“What an odd thing it is to see an entire species -- billions of people -- playing with, listening to meaningless tonal patterns, occupied…

— Oliver Sacks

Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music…

— Oliver Sacks