Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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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

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

George Santayana

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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

Davis, Miles

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

Green, Benny

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Rattle, Simon

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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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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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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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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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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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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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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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