Motivational Quotes

Music

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Music

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Huxley, Aldous

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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

Luther, Martin

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Green, Benny

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

Miller, Henry

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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

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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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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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

G. K. Chesterton

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Gibbons, Billy

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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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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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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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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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