Motivational Quotes

Music

Good music is very close to primitive language.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Music

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Tate, Jeffrey

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Sir Edward Appleton

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Kin Hubbard

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Plutarch

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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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

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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

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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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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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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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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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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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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

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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