Motivational Quotes

Music

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Music

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

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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

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

Newman, Ernest

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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

11.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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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

18.

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

25.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Luther, Martin

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gore, Tipper

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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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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

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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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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