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Music and Morals
Music and Behaviors
Music and Behaviors
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything; It is the essences of order and lends to all that is good, just, and beautiful"
-Plato
Music and Behaviors
Music and Behaviors
Music and Behaviors
"Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of them who is rightly educated graceful, or of them who is ill-educated ungraceful"
- Socrates
Music and Passions
Music and Behaviors
Music and Passions
"Music directly imitates passions or states of the soul... when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, they become imbued with the same passion; and if they habitually listen to music that rouses ignoble passions, their whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form"
- Aristotle