Body Quote by Oneohtrix Point Never

Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental…

— Maya Beiser

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

— George Santayana

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

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out…

— Harrison Birtwistle

Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age…

— Samuel Pepys

To me, music is that which connects human hearts. It is something that takes you to unknown levels.

— Ilaiyaraaja

I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

To me music is the sound of nature in process, either the full cacophony, one thread of it, or a deliberate composition. It's both…

— Warren Jeffs

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

— Tom Waits

The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the…

— Andrea Bocelli

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one,…

— Igor Stravinsky

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

— Anonymous