Motivational Quotes

Music

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

- Beecham, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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

Lennon, John

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

Sousa, John Philip

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Plutarch

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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

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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 wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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 a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Martin Luther

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.