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

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

Lennon, John

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

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

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

14.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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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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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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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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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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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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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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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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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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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 a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.