Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Music

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

Franklin, Aretha

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Green, Benny

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

Attali, Jacques

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Huneker, James G.

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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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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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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

Sousa, John Philip

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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

George Santayana

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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 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

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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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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner