Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Best Quotes about Music

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wilson, Colin

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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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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

28.

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

Luther, Martin

29.

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

Lennon, John

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

34.

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

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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

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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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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Brown, James

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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 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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel