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

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

Kin Hubbard

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

13.

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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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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

16.

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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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

18.

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

Attali, Jacques

19.

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

Luther, Martin

20.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

21.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

22.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

23.

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

24.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

25.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

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

28.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

29.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

30.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

35.

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

36.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

37.

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

38.

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

Rattle, Simon

39.

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.

40.

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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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

43.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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[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

46.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye