Theme
of Zoom Meeting: Music
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by Richard E. Gordon Duplication prohibited without author’s permission.
Last updated: December 8, 2020
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1. Does music have any value besides entertainment?
2. What role, if any, does music play in your life?
3. Who was your favorite musical performer? What made her/him your favorite?
4. Compared to today, what do you think music will be like five years from now?
5. Are non-human creatures affected by music? How about dogs and cats? Insects?
6. Can music affect plants?
7. Do you think music existed in cavemen days?
8. Does music have a positive effect on your brain?
9. Can music play an important role in therapy? What kind of music? Is there such a career as music therapist?
10. How has your taste in music changed since you were in your late teens?
11. What role can parents play in developing a love of music in their children’s lives?
12. How important do you think music is in our society? If we took away music, would our society be losing something very important?
13. If music plays a big role in your life, how was your love of music nourished?
14. What does today’s popular music reflect about our culture?
15. What kind of music do you most enjoy?
16. How far back in history does music go? Any evidence cavemen had music?
17. Can the deaf enjoy music?
18. How important is the role music plays in your religious congregation?
19. What role can music play in nursing homes? In hospice care?
20. Do women and men differ in their taste for music?
21. Do you play a musical instrument? If not, do you wish you did? Why?
22. Is the internet a great and free source of endless hours of music? How about joyful classical music to lift your mood when you feel in low key?
Quotations
1. “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” – Plato.
2. “When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest.” – Henry David Thoreau
3. “Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
4. “I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.” – William James
5. “Music is the universal language of mankind.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
6. “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” – Albert Einstein
7. “I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.” ― Billy Joel
8. “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” ― Albert Schweitzer
9. “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ― Confucius
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC” ―
“Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.” ―
12. “Where words fail, music speaks.” ―