Motivational Quotes

Music

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Music

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

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

Luther, Martin

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

14.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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.

William Shakespeare

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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

31.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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

Rattle, Simon

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis