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

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

Gibbons, Billy

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Szell, George

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

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

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Schnabel, Artur

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

17.

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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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Lynn, Loretta

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

G. K. Chesterton

25.

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

Miller, Henry

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dietz, Howard

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

William Shakespeare

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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

Luther, Martin

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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

J. K. Rowling

49.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo