Music is either sacred or profane. What is sacred accords completely with its nobility, and this is where music most immediately influences life; such influence remains unchanged at all times and in every epoch. Profane music should be altogether cheerful. Music of a kind that mixes the sacred with the profane is godless and shoddy music wich goes in for expressing feeble, wretched, deplorable feelings, and is just insipid. For it is not serious enough to be sacred and it lacks the chief quality of the opposite kind: cheerfulness. Anonymous
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This quote from Mozart is an explanation of the purpose and best use of music. Music has a lot of power over us and it should be used to express the perfect feelings and emotions. All music, sacred and profane, has a noble purpose. It should be used to inspire people to do what is right.

The purpose of sacred music is for it to represent the perfect feelings and emotions that we need in our lives. Profane music can be used to express weak or miserable feelings that don't accord with our noble nature. It lacks the strength that is needed in order for it to be a true source of inspiration.

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