Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about 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

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

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Sousa, John Philip

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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

Miller, Henry

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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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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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Woody Allen

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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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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Winter, Arthur

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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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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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin