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

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

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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

Martin Luther

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Martin Luther

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

Dan Rather

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Lennon, John

12.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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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

15.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

17.

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.

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

20.

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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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Aldous Huxley

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

28.

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

Lynn, Loretta

30.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

31.

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

Woody Allen

32.

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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Billings, Josh

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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