Motivational Quotes

Music

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

- Conroy, Pat

Best Quotes about Music

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

[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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

J. K. Rowling

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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)

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

William Shakespeare

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

George Eliot

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

Ed Gardner

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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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

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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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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Szell, George

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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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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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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

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.