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

1.

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

2.

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

William Shakespeare

3.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

4.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

5.

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

Auden, W. H.

6.

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

Brown, James

7.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

8.

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

Martin Luther

9.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

10.

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

11.

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

Sousa, John Philip

12.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

13.

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)

14.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

15.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

19.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

21.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

25.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

26.

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

27.

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

28.

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

29.

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

30.

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

George Bernard Shaw

31.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

32.

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

Lennon, John

33.

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

Franklin, Aretha

34.

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

35.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Plutarch

37.

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

J. K. Rowling

38.

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

39.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

42.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

43.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

45.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

46.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

47.

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

Gore, Tipper

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren