Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Best Quotes about Music

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

11.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

12.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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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

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

Luther, Martin

18.

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

William Shakespeare

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Addison, Joseph

21.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Huxley, Aldous

23.

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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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

25.

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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

30.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

32.

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

33.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

37.

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

J. K. Rowling

38.

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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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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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 is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

46.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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

Lennon, John

49.

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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey