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

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

11.

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

Davis, Miles

12.

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Plato

15.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

17.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

18.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

19.

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

Dietz, Howard

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Ed Gardner

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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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.

29.

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

Gore, Tipper

30.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

G. K. Chesterton

33.

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.

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

35.

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

Huneker, James G.

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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

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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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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

40.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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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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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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Aldous Huxley

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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.