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

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Dietz, Howard

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

George Bernard Shaw

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Huneker, James G.

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Franklin, Aretha

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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.

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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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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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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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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

John Erskine

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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

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Dan Rather

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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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, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.