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

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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

Franklin, Aretha

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Plato

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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 have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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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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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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