Motivational Quotes

Music

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

- Bacall, Lauren

Best Quotes about Music

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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.

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

Mencken, H. L.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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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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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 was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Gibbons, Billy

26.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren