Daily Inspiration Quote by Fritz Kreisler

War’s ugliest magic is how quickly it can make you romantic about machines designed to kill you. Kreisler, better known for coaxing warmth and elegance from a violin, describes artillery not as terror but as relief: a “welcome sound,” a “deep roaring and crashing” that feels almost comforting. That inversion is the point. He’s capturing the psychological flip that happens when danger becomes ambient and survival depends on louder violence arriving from “our rear.”

The phrasing does a lot of covert work. “Moral effect” isn’t morality in the churchy sense; it’s morale, the inner weather of soldiers who’ve been ground down by uncertainty. The guns don’t just change the tactical situation, they change the story people are telling themselves: we’re not abandoned, we have force behind us, we can stop flinching for a minute. That’s why the sentence leans on sensory excess (“thundering,” “deep roaring,” “crashing”) and why it lands on “many of us.” He’s laundering an uncomfortable reaction through the collective, making it less like personal bloodlust and more like a shared human reflex.

Context matters: Kreisler lived through the era when industrialized warfare turned sound into a constant companion and a psychological weapon. A composer writing about noise this way is especially telling. He hears the battlefield as orchestration, and the “welcome” artillery becomes a perverse kind of reassurance - not beautiful, but structured, directional, on your side. It’s less about loving war than about how war teaches you to crave any sign that you might get to live.