Motivational Quotes

Music

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

- Conroy, Pat

Best Quotes about Music

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Ruskin, John

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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

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

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

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Green, Benny

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

George Eliot

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

29.

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)

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Wilson, Colin

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Billings, Josh

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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.