Motivational Quotes

Music

Good music is very close to primitive language.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

[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

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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

Brown, James

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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.

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schnabel, Artur

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

Billings, Josh

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Armstrong, Louis

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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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

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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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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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

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Wordsworth, William

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

J. K. Rowling

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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

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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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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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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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 the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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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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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich