Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

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

Kin Hubbard

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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)

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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

10.

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

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

13.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

14.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

15.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

16.

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

17.

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

Aldous Huxley

18.

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

19.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

20.

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

Newman, Ernest

21.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

23.

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

24.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

25.

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

Zappa, Frank

26.

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

Huxley, Aldous

27.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

29.

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

30.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

31.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

32.

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

33.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

34.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

38.

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

George Eliot

39.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

40.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

41.

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

42.

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

Wordsworth, William

43.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

44.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

46.

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

Hugo, Victor

47.

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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.