Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Best Quotes about Music

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

George Santayana

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Davis, Miles

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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

Hugo, Victor

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 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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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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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 hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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

Billings, Josh

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

33.

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

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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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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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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

George Bernard Shaw

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

John Erskine

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor