Motivational Quotes

Music

Good music is very close to primitive language.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Music

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Woody Allen

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

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

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

Armstrong, Louis

10.

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

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

14.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

15.

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

16.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

19.

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

20.

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

Kin Hubbard

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Miller, Henry

23.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

25.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

26.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

28.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Davis, Miles

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Gibbons, Billy

35.

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

36.

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

Franklin, Aretha

37.

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

38.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

40.

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

41.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Wilson, Colin

43.

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

44.

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

45.

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

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

Billings, Josh

48.

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

49.

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

50.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann