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View Quote Our music has sprung from the patient, incessant, and progressive penetration into the law of resonance, that is to say, from the successive exploitation of the octave, the fifth and the fourth (ninth to twelfth century), the third (thirteenth to sixteenth century), the seventh (seventeenth and eighteenth century), the major ninth, the augmented fifth, and the perfect eleventh (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) . . . . this evolution . . . . constitutes, at the same time, the only true justification of the musical art.

View Quote The Evolution of Music, Alfredo Casella, quoted in Miller, Horace Alden (1930). New Harmonic Devices, p. 96.

View Quote Music is mere beauty; it is beauty in the abstract, beauty in solution. It is a shapeless and liquid element of beauty, in which a man may really float, not indeed affirming the truth, but not denying it.

View Quote G. K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw (1909), pp. 95–96.

View Quote We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.

View Quote J. Reuben Clark, LDS Conference Report, Oct. 1936.

View Quote "Music" includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.

View Quote Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, Section 63 (1)(b) (United Kingdom).

View Quote This section attempts to define music played at raves, in order to give police power to ban them. It was widely ridiculed at the time and since (see, e.g., Marcel Berlins, "Writ Large", The Guardian, February 1, 1994).