Amusement Quote by John Herschel

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that…

— John Herschel

Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.

— Horace Bushnell

Being from a background of dance music and what you might call club music or electronic music, I think something that gets neglected in…

— Mura Masa

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.

— Michael Ondaatje

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

— Sonny Rollins

“All of the ills of mankind, all of the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books ...have arisen merely from a lack of skill…

— Molière

Music is entertainment, and we need that in order not to fall into the pit of despair.

— Varg Vikernes

Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good.

— John Seagall

Fetishized as a commodity, music is illustrative of the evolution of our entire society: deritualize a social form, repress an activity of the body,…

— Jacques Attali

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

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.

— John Armstrong