Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

1.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

2.

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

Dietz, Howard

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

6.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

7.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

8.

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

Miller, Henry

9.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

10.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

11.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

12.

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

Franklin, Aretha

13.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

15.

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

Attali, Jacques

16.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

17.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

18.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

19.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

20.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

23.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

Huxley, Aldous

26.

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

27.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

28.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

30.

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

Luther, Martin

31.

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

32.

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

33.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

34.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

35.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

36.

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

Billings, Josh

37.

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

Rattle, Simon

38.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

Wilson, Colin

40.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

41.

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

Gore, Tipper

42.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

43.

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

Ruskin, John

44.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

45.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

46.

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

47.

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

48.

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

49.

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

50.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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