Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Music

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

10.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

11.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

12.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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

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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

16.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

24.

Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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

Martin Luther

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Billings, Josh

28.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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

G. K. Chesterton

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

42.

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.