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

Brown, James

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Rattle, Simon

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

10.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

11.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

12.

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

13.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

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

15.

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Oscar Wilde

21.

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

J. K. Rowling

22.

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

Pepys, Samuel

23.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

24.

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

25.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

26.

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

27.

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

28.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

29.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

30.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

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

32.

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

33.

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

Winter, Arthur

34.

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

Plato

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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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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

40.

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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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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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

45.

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

46.

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

Lennon, John

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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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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

49.

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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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