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

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

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Gibbons, Billy

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Camus, Albert

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

25.

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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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

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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

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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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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

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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