Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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

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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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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

15.

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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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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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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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

19.

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

William Shakespeare

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Tate, Jeffrey

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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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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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

30.

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

Green, Benny

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

37.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

39.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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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

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

Winter, Arthur

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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

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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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