Motivational Quotes

Music

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

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

Green, Benny

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

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

Woody Allen

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

12.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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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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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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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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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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 like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

William Shakespeare

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

Addison, Joseph

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

J. K. Rowling

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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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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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Szell, George