Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Luther, Martin

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

Johnson, James Weldon

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Plato

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

Woody Allen

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

[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

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

11.

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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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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

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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

Lennon, John

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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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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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Green, Benny

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Ed Gardner

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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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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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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.