Motivational Quotes

Music

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

- Dan Rather

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

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.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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)

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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

11.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

12.

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

Gore, Tipper

13.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

28.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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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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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Billings, Josh

44.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Aldous Huxley