Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beecham, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

11.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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.

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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

Lennon, John

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Huneker, James G.

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

28.

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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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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 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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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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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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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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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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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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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 causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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