Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beecham, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

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

J. K. Rowling

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

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

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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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 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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

18.

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

20.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lynn, Loretta

28.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

30.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

32.

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

Gore, Tipper

33.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

34.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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

Lennon, John

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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 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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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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

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

45.

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 mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

47.

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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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

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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