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

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

[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

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

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Huneker, James G.

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Wilson, Colin

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schnabel, Artur

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hugo, Victor