Motivational Quotes

Music

The high note is not the only thing.

- Domingo, Placido

Best Quotes about Music

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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)

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Franklin, Aretha

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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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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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

Green, Benny

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Davis, Miles

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

41.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Wilson, Colin

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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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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

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan