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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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

Rattle, Simon

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Newman, Ernest

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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

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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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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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.

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

George Eliot

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

Wilde, Oscar

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