The bus tunnel runs underneath Seattle and on a blustery, rainy day it is a good way to escape the weather. One doesn’t expect much, just a ride. Today moi was treated to the beautiful sounds of sitar music. Like moi, one of the street musicians had taken refuge in a landing. Today’s deposit into the Joy Jar is the beautiful music of the sitar.
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it’s third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it’s much more polite.
Miriam Makeba
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin Luther
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together – which is great.
Youssou N’Dour
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