Motivational Quotes

Music

The high note is not the only thing.

- Domingo, Placido

Best Quotes about Music

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Woody Allen

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Green, Benny

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

J. K. Rowling

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

19.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

20.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

23.

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

Lennon, John

24.

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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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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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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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

28.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

29.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

30.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

31.

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

32.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Huxley, Aldous

34.

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Aldous Huxley

37.

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

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

40.

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

G. K. Chesterton

41.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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

43.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

45.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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

47.

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

William Shakespeare

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

49.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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.