Motivational Quotes

Music

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Music

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Tate, Jeffrey

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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.

Gallagher, Liam

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Woody Allen

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Luther, Martin

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

37.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.