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

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

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.

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

Attali, Jacques

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Gibbons, Billy

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Plutarch

12.

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

Davis, Miles

13.

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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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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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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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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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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Pepys, Samuel

24.

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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

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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

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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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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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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

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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

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

Huneker, James G.

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

46.

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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

48.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

49.

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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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