Motivational Quotes

Music

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

- Brown, James

Best Quotes about Music

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Plutarch

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Dietz, Howard

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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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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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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 wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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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 most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max