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

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Szell, George

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

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Woody Allen

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sousa, John Philip

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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.

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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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

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

Attali, Jacques

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Aldous Huxley

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Grant, Ulysses S.