Motivational Quotes

Music

Song is the heroics of speech.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

J. K. Rowling

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

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

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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

10.

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

11.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

17.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

19.

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

20.

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

Green, Benny

22.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Dietz, Howard

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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'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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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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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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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Rattle, Simon

37.

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

Gore, Tipper

38.

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

39.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

40.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Attali, Jacques

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch