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

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

Brown, James

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Billings, Josh

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Zappa, Frank

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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

40.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.