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

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Lynn, Loretta

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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

Billings, Josh

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Szell, George

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Lennon, John

23.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

24.

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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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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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

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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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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Huxley, Aldous

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Huneker, James G.

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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The history of a people is found in its songs.