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

Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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

Davis, Miles

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

Rattle, Simon

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

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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

Plutarch

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

G. K. Chesterton

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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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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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Sousa, John Philip

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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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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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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.