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"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."
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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."
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"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."
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"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."
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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."
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"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else."
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"The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician."
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"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."
Man
"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not."
Power
"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."
Sin
"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."
Man
"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power."
Power
"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
Religion
"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things."
God
"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."
Nature
"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
Intellectual
"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."
Ignorance
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