Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Best Quotes about Music

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Gore, Tipper

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Plutarch

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

10.

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

11.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

12.

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)

13.

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

14.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

15.

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

16.

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

17.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

18.

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

19.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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

21.

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

22.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

23.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

24.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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

26.

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

27.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

28.

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

Pepys, Samuel

29.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

30.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

32.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

36.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

37.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

38.

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

40.

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

41.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

42.

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

43.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

44.

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

45.

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

Hugo, Victor

46.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

47.

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

48.

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

49.

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

John Erskine

50.

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