Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Attali, Jacques

Best Quotes about Music

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

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Huneker, James G.

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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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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Woody Allen

29.

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

Luther, Martin

30.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

34.

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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

40.

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

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

Gibbons, Billy

42.

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

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

John Erskine

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sousa, John Philip

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.