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

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Rattle, Simon

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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

Plutarch

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

Addison, Joseph

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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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

John Erskine

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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

Attali, Jacques

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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

Plato

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Davis, Miles

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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 mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Newman, Ernest

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich