Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Johnson, James Weldon

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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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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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

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

Huneker, James G.

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dietz, Howard

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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

22.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Ed Gardner

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Sousa, John Philip

37.

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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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