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

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

Huneker, James G.

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

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Green, Benny

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

Franklin, Aretha

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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

Wordsworth, William

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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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

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

31.

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

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

Newman, Ernest

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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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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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 wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas