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

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

J. K. Rowling

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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

Plutarch

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Aldous Huxley

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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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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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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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

43.

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

Lennon, John

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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

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

Pepys, Samuel