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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place. (Tom Kiana)
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music. (Tom Kiana)
Without Elvis, none of us could have made it. (Tom Kiana)
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body. (Tom Kiana)
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Country music is three chords and the truth. (Tom Kiana)
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. (Tom Kiana)
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent (Tom Kiana)
Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently. (Tom Kiana)
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Tom Kiana)
I was a veteran before I was a teenager. (Tom Kiana)
The history of a people is found in its songs. (Tom Kiana)
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. (Tom Kiana)
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. (Tom Kiana)
It is the only sensual pleasure without vice. (Tom Kiana)
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. (Tom Kiana)
Music is the vernacular of the human soul. (Tom Kiana)
Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress. (Tom Kiana)
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own. (Tom Kiana)
Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind. (Tom Kiana)
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us. (Tom Kiana)
Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor. (Tom Kiana)
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. (Tom Kiana)
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. (Tom Kiana)
Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. (Tom Kiana)
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. (Tom Kiana)
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