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

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

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

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

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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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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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Ruskin, John

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

George Bernard Shaw

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Winter, Arthur

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Hugo, Victor

34.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Luther, Martin

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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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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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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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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude