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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Winter, Arthur

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Davis, Miles

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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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.

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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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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

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Luther, Martin

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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