SOME NOTES TAKEN FROM THE VIDEO - HELLS' BELLS

This handout contains interesting quotes about music and its influence. (The video itself should not be shown in full. Apart from its length, it contains much inappropriate material)

The Plasmatics

"The brainwashed do not know that they are being brainwashed"

Angus Young from ACDC

Hit Parader 1985

"Someone else is steering me. I become possessed when I’m on stage"

National Review

• Today Rock’n’roll is the most popular industry in the world"
• Rock’s sheer pervasiveness makes it the most profound value shaper in existence today. Unless you are deaf , it’s virtually guaranteed that Rock music has affected your view of the world
• We wake up to it, drive to it, play , study and go to sleep to it
• Dr Bloom noted in "The something of the American mind" that ‘ Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addictiveness to music"

2000 BC

Music checked in China to ensure that it conveyed truth

Shin (Emperor) - examined music

Plato -

" When modes of music change the fundamental laws of the state change with them"

" Through foolishness, they deceived themselves into thinking that there was no right or wrong in music, that it was to be judged good or bad by the pleasure it gave"

As it was the criterion was not music but a reputation for promiscuous cleverness and a spirit of law breaking

Aristotle -

Music has the power to form character

Lenin -

One quick way to destroy a society is through its music

Effects of music on the physical dimension of the human person

Tests conducted showed:

• loud sounds can make an egg hard-boiled
• plants respond well to classical music
• heavy metal music retards growth and kills the plant

Musicologist Dr Neesty

" Its really a powerful drug. Music can poison you, lift our spirits and make you sick without knowing why"

Effects of music on the spiritual dimension of the human person

Music is the expression of the soul - mind, will, emotion

Eddie Manson

"We manipulate people like crazy…Every film composer mixes his … with a talent for musical manipulation and then projects that Macchiavellian power gut to gut "

The auditory nerves are the most dominant of all the senses

"Thrills occur most commonly in response to music"

David Tarry

"Music is the language of languages. It can be said that of all the arts there is none that more powerfully moves and changes the consciousness

David Crosby said that he could steal kids from their parents by his music and alter their value systems

Jim Hendrix: 1969

I can explain everything better through music You people to where they go right back to their natural state and when you get people at their weakest point you can preach into their subconscious what you want to say

Eddy Manson

Music - more dangerous than drugs because no one takes musical manipulation very seriously

Music is a spiritual thing

Muse - spirit guides

Jodi Mitchell - Jazz Artist

Jodi’s own strongest creative impulses come to her in a somewhat unusual way. She believes in a male muse named Art who lends her this key to what she airily calls "the shrine of creativity"

Time Dec 16 1974, page 6

''I do believe that music itself is a spiritual force. The inspirator I feel is like a holy thing. Its beyond my words I can use to describe it"

John MacLaughlin a guitarist said

"One night we were playing and suddenly the spirit entered into me and I was playing but it was no longer me playing

Bach _ The end of all music should be the glory of God and the refreshment of the human spirit

Satan’s role - to stimulate the variety of lusts resident within the human heart (2 Peter 2 ; 9)

• oppose God’s efforts to redeem man
• trivialise his own image
• (2 Cor : 4 : 4 )
• INXS "The Devil Inside"

Music - subtle first then blatant