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

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Ed Gardner

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Davis, Miles

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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 often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wilson, Colin

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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