“It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.”
Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
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“Only those who listen to music with the heart can experience the vibrations of love.”
Original: (it) Solo chi ascolta musica col cuore riesce a provare le vibrazioni dell'amore.
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“The best music always results from ecstasies of logic.”
Quoted by Donal Henahan in the New York Times Magazine, May 11, 1975.
"The Power of Music" (1964), translated in Music Journal, September 1965, p. 37.
Source: Real Presences (1989), I: A Secondary City, Ch. 3 (p. 9).
“Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.”
Two Interviews (1985), ISBN 0714528293
Original: Per chi vive la musica con il cuore, è estremamente emozionante ascoltare ogni volta le magiche e dolci melodie del suono.
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The Spiritual Espousals (c. 1340)
Context: You should watch the wise bee and do as it does. It dwells in unity, in the congregation of its fellows, and goes forth, not in the storm, but in calm and still weather, in the sunshine, towards all those flowers in which sweetness may be found. It does not rest on any flower, neither on any beauty nor on any sweetness; but it draws from them honey and wax, that is to say, sweetness and light-giving matter, and brings both to the unity of the hive, that therewith it may produce fruits, and be greatly profitable. Christ, the Eternal Sun, shining into the open heart, causes that heart to grow and to bloom, and it overflows with all the inward powers with joy and sweetness. So the wise man will do like the bee, and he will fly forth with attention and with reason and with discretion, towards all those gifts and towards all that sweetness which he has ever experienced, and towards all the good which God has ever done to him. And in the light of love and with inward observation, he will taste of the multitude of consolations and good things; and will not rest upon any flower of the gifts of God, but, laden with gratitude and praise, will fly back into the unity, wherein he wishes to rest and to dwell eternally with God.
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: The Great Need of the Hour (January 20, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia) http://www.reobama.com/SpeechesJan2008.htm
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