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To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.

— John Diamond

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

— Vanna Bonta

I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring…

— Bruno Walter

What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore…

— Simon Singh

Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or…

— Ali Akbar Khan

“The Pythagoreans... were fascinated by certain specific ratios, ...The Greeks knew these as the 'golden' proportion and the 'perfect' proportion respectively. They may well…

— Graham Flegg

No one will deny that the soul of Pythagoras was sent to mankind from Apollo's domain, having either been one of his attendants, or…

— Iamblichus

And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly…

— Rebecca Goldstein

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a…

— Arthur Koestler

“Music and Dancing, not only give great pleasure but have the honour of depending on Mathematics, for they consist in number and in measure.....Therefore,…

— Charles Sorel

I've approached music with the understanding that knowledge is available regarding tones and their effect upon the body. I think the father of that…

— Paul Horn