Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Best Quotes about Music

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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.

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Davis, Miles

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Green, Benny

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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.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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 is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Gore, Tipper

28.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Attali, Jacques

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova