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

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Attali, Jacques

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Aldous Huxley

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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

William Shakespeare

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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

Sousa, John Philip

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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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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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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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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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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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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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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