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

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

Plato

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

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

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

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

12.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

William Shakespeare

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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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[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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Luther, Martin

24.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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

G. K. Chesterton

26.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Green, Benny

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

32.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.