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 think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Wilson, Colin

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

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

Brown, James

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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 is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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 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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Gore, Tipper

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

31.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Davis, Miles

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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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

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

George Santayana

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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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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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