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

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Attali, Jacques

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

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 is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Johnson, Samuel

Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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

Woody Allen

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Sousa, John Philip

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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[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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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

Plutarch

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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

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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.