Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Music

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

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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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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[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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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 history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

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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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Hugo, Victor

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