Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beecham, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about 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

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Huneker, James G.

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

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

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

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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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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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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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

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

24.

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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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Plutarch

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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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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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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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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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel