Arts Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Tell me why you love music, Madeleine; how it affects you.”…“I can hide within it, surrounded in beauty, rather than a witness to the…

— M.S. Willis

“If you are speaking of music...it is of all subjects my delight. There are few people in England I suppose, who have more true…

— Jane Austen

“I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble. I do…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism. ”

— Arthur Phillips

“The taste of music with the inhabitants of Venus and Jupiter is at a high level, similar to that of Frenchmen or Italians.”

— Anonymous

“One cannot listen to different pieces of music at the same time, a real comprehension of the beautiful being possible only through concentration upon…

— Kakuzō Okakura

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible…We may encounter many defeats but we must not…

— Maya Angelou

“For at least a century, the music has been captive to a cult of mediocre elitism that tries to manufacture self-esteem by clutching at…

— Alex Ross

“The Tragedy of the human condition is that the very things that make us interesting and culturally important and progressively brilliant are our differences;…

— Bryce Courtenay

“Apparently foreigners were not welcome, or Parisians thought they were superior to all other peoples of the earth. I”

— Paulo Coelho

“I, who even as a child had been so distrustful of music (not because it took me out of myself more powerfully than anything…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Popular music is a microcosm of the culture, Eliza. It reflects the mentality of the population.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo