Motivational Quotes

Music

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Music

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Plato

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Armstrong, Louis

10.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

11.

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

12.

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

J. K. Rowling

13.

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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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

15.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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

Sousa, John Philip

17.

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

Szell, George

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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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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

23.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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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.

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

Ed Gardner

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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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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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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

30.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

32.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Addison, Joseph

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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 song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Woody Allen

43.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Yoko Ono

48.

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.

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.