Monday, August 4, 2008

Sane/Insane Quotes On The Importance Of Music

…you Be The Judge.

"Those who hear not the music. . . think the dancers mad."--Unknown

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."-- Aldous Leonard Huxley

"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."-- George Eliot

"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."-- Groucho Marx

“What is the truth about rock music? Music is a powerful and perhaps the most powerful medium in the world. Music. Plato says when the music of a society changes, the whole society will change. Aristotle, a contemporary of Plato’s, says when music changes there should be laws to govern the nature and the character of that music. Lenin says that the best and the quickest way to undermine any society is through its music…Music, ladies and gentleman, is the gift of God. It was given to man to offer praises to God and to lift us up to him and to exalt Him to touch the tender recesses of our hearts and of our minds. Satan has taken music and he has counterfeited it, convoluted it, twisted it, exploited it and now he’s using it to hammer, hammer, hammer, hammer, hammer a message into the minds and the lifestyles of this generation.” --Jimmy Swaggart

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Boy, that Swaggert fella really knew what he was talkin' about, huh?

CTV said...

Next well have the pope railing againsy rock music... oh, what?