Only sick music makes money today.
musicquotes
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
The sister played so beautifully. Her face was tilted to one side and she followed the notes with soulful and probing eyes. Gregor advanced a little, keeping his eyes low so that they might possibly meet hers. Was he a beast if music could move him so?
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.
freedom / human / liberation / music
Music conveys to us itself!
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music.
beautiful / music / poet / sufferings
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
expressing / inexpressible / music / silence
Without music, life would be a mistake.