Motivational Quotes

Music

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

- Brown, James

Best Quotes about Music

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Lynn, Loretta

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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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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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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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 wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Winter, Arthur

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Aldous Huxley

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[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

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

Auden, W. H.

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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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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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Pepys, Samuel

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel