Motivational Quotes

Music

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)

Best Quotes about Music

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Billings, Josh

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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

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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

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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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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Szell, George

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Green, Benny

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance