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Philosophy is the highest music. -- Plato
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy. -- Gary Wright
I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive. -- Mike Love
It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything. -- Tommy Mottola
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it. -- Betty Who
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance. -- Ken Robinson
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. -- Bob Dylan
I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music. -- Greg Ginn
Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today. -- Jon Voight
I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it. -- Ziggy Marley
If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose. -- Anthony Hopkins
The '60s weren't my cup of tea. I never bought that philosophy that, you know, we're all brothers and that'll solve everything. And I never believed that music dictated the times. I always thought it reflected them. -- Phil Everly
I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy. -- Paul Nurse
The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it. -- Frank Iero
Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people. -- Ziggy Marley
Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving. -- Emeril Lagasse
I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really. -- A. R. Rahman
I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe. -- Brian Schmidt
Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Philosophy is the song of love with the music of morals. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that. -- T. S. Monk
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us. -- George Carlin
When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer. -- Richard Pinhas
I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning -- Plato
My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity. -- Eric Clapton
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine. -- Robert Bringhurst

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