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

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

Mencken, H. L.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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

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

J. K. Rowling

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Armstrong, Louis

11.

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

Gibbons, Billy

12.

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

13.

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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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

15.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

23.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

25.

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

Gore, Tipper

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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

Plutarch

28.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

29.

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

30.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

31.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

32.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

33.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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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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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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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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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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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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 music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

42.

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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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.