Motivational Quotes

Music

[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

Best Quotes about Music

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

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Luther, Martin

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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

Plato

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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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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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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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

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Plutarch

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Miller, Henry

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

Gore, Tipper

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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

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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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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

32.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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

Kin Hubbard

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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

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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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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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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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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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 only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence