Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beecham, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Lennon, John

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Woody Allen

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Zappa, Frank

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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

George Santayana

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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 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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

J. K. Rowling

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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