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

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

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

[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

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Attali, Jacques

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

Newman, Ernest

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

William Shakespeare

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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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.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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 causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Zappa, Frank

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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 mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Green, Benny

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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.