#music

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#music #plains #understand #untranslatable #music

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#green-day #jesus-of-suburbia #music #tales-of-another-broken-home #music

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's real rebellion. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#christianity #rebel #rock-music #music

The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

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Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music. ↗

— Martin Luther

#worship #music

If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#soul #music

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly. ↗

— Jay-Z

#election #music #obama #politics #usa

I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring. ↗

— Pat Conroy

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The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation ↗

— John Ashbery

#the-mythological-poet #music

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. ↗

— William Cowper

#sound #sympathy #music