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Music is an art form in which the medium is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "(art) of the Muses". Greek philosophers and ancient India defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as "the harmony of... full article at wikipedia

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
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Created by Metaweb Oct 22, 2006
Last edited by olivergbayley Aug 6, 2008

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