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

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

John Erskine

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

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

Dan Rather

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, James

10.

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

11.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Cocteau, Jean

18.

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

Ed Gardner

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

25.

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

Gibbons, Billy

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

28.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

34.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

35.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

36.

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

Attali, Jacques

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

41.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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)

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Plutarch