Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beerbohm, Sir Max

Best Quotes about Music

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Winter, Arthur

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

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Luther, Martin

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Miller, Henry

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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

Woody Allen

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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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'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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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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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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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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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Plutarch

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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