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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

13.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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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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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

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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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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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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ed Gardner

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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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Camus, Albert

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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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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dietz, Howard

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Luther, Martin

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

41.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Zappa, Frank

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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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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard