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

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Luther, Martin

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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

Plutarch

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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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 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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Huneker, James G.

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

George Santayana

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

Auden, W. H.

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

30.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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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

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Aldous Huxley

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon