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

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Luther, Martin

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

John Erskine

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

Huneker, James G.

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

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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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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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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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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

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

Aldous Huxley

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Plato

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Ed Gardner

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Miller, Henry

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

43.

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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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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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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

Davis, Miles

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.