Music Quote by Milan Kundera

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

— Arthur Phillips

Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience

— John McLaughlin

“Musical myths speak with authority about our society, its fragility, its strengths, its desires, and its limits. Music becomes a wise version of the…

— Edward Rothstein

“Music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from…

— Roger Scruton

“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness,…

— Plato

“Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. But it is also in terror, because those values…

— Rebecca West

“This world is not conclusion. A species stands beyond - Invisible, as Music - But positive as Sound”

— Emily Dickinson

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment –…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

“The aim and final reason of all music should be none else but the glory of God and refreshing the soul. Where this is…

— Johann Sebastian Bach

“Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos. Therefore one…

— Hermann Hesse

The Western music tradition is mostly addressed to a public that has a critical mind, and judges the quality of the writing, of the…

— Gaspar Claus

The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

— Albert Einstein