Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Best Quotes about Music

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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

Lennon, John

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

Billings, Josh

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gore, Tipper

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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

12.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

15.

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

17.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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

19.

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

Wilson, Colin

20.

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

Plutarch

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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

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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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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

30.

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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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

32.

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

J. K. Rowling

33.

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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Winter, Arthur

41.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Wordsworth, William

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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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

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude