Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Best Quotes about Music

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Billings, Josh

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've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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.

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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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

Gore, Tipper

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

George Eliot

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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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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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 was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

William Shakespeare

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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