Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

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

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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.

William Shakespeare

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Davis, Miles

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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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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Aldous Huxley

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Brown, James

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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