Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Colour can raise the dead.

Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.

Songs are more powerful than books.

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

You can impact on people with music, and I love that because music impacts on me.

The power and reach of music should never be underestimated.

The power of music is undeniable.

It's a cliche that music rises above it all, and it's a cliche for a reason - it's very often true.

Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my life-then what good is this music going to prove to be? what does that say about us? what are we confirming in ourselves by doting on art that is emotionally neutral? and, simultaneously, what in ourselves might we be destroying or at least keeping down?

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me. But, I think it just came from being affected by strong, personal art.

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?

It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.