Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Ruskin, John

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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

Plutarch

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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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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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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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

J. K. Rowling

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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

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Camus, Albert

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David