Music Quote by Eric Hoffer Download Open image “It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.” — Eric Hoffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Music Opposites Soul Spirituality Tension
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul. — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul. — Chris Tomlin Copy Share Image
Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination. — Plato Copy Share Image
Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
There is something in the spirit of song...that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired. — Charles W. Nibley Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
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When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
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When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Downloading's the same as what I used to do. I used to tape the charts of the songs I liked [off the radio]. I… — Liam Gallagher Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.' — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time. — Stromae Copy Share Image