Quotes About Philosophy

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.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

Whatever you believe, you become.

There is no such thing as a wrong note.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.