Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

Brown, James

13.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

John Erskine

15.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

16.

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

17.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

18.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

19.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Huneker, James G.

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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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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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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

28.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

29.

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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. 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

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

Addison, Joseph

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

36.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

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

39.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

41.

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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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 is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

44.

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

45.

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

Davis, Miles

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