Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Music

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

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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

Dietz, Howard

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

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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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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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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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Oscar Wilde

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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

Wilson, Colin

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

41.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

43.

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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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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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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

John Erskine

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.