Motivational Quotes

Music

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Music

The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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

George Eliot

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Huxley, Aldous

11.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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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

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

14.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

24.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

25.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

30.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

31.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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