Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Armstrong, Louis

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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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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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

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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

George Eliot

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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 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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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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