Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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

Armstrong, Louis

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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 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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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

Aldous Huxley

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Lennon, John

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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

Plutarch

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

George Eliot

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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

Winter, Arthur

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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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.