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 is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Luther, Martin

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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

Billings, Josh

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

Davis, Miles

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Plutarch

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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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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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Auden, W. H.

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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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

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Franklin, Aretha

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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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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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.