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

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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Sousa, John Philip

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

Rattle, Simon

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

10.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

11.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

12.

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

Plutarch

14.

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

Wordsworth, William

15.

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

Pepys, Samuel

16.

[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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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)

18.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

19.

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

Addison, Joseph

20.

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

21.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

22.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

23.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

24.

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

25.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

26.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

27.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

28.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

30.

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

Franklin, Aretha

31.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

32.

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

33.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

34.

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

Green, Benny

35.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

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

37.

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

38.

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

39.

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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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

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

Ed Gardner

43.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Miller, Henry

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Aldous Huxley

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert