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

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

Davis, Miles

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

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

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Thoreau, Henry David

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

11.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

19.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

20.

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

21.

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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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

25.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Newman, Ernest

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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

42.

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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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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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Billings, Josh

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.