Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Music

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Ed Gardner

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

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

Plutarch

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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

Szell, George

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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 the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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 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

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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

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

George Eliot

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

Gore, Tipper

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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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 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

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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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