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

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

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

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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)

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Zappa, Frank

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Cocteau, Jean

12.

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

Miller, Henry

13.

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

Pepys, Samuel

15.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

18.

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

19.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

20.

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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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

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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

23.

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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

25.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Attali, Jacques

28.

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

29.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

30.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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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

36.

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

Gibbons, Billy

37.

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

38.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

39.

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

Martin Luther

40.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

41.

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

Green, Benny

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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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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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

48.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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.