Motivational Quotes

Music

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

- Gibbons, Billy

Best Quotes about Music

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra