Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Aldous Huxley

Best Quotes about Music

1.

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

2.

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

3.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

4.

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

Luther, Martin

5.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

6.

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

7.

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

Plato

8.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

9.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

10.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

11.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

12.

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

13.

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

Davis, Miles

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

17.

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

18.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

19.

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

20.

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

Woody Allen

21.

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

Lennon, John

22.

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

23.

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

Aldous Huxley

24.

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

25.

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

26.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

28.

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

J. K. Rowling

29.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

30.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

31.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

33.

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

Dan Rather

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

38.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

39.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

40.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

41.

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

Gibbons, Billy

42.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

43.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

44.

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

Szell, George

45.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

46.

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.

47.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

48.

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

49.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

50.

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