Motivational Quotes

Music

The high note is not the only thing.

- Domingo, Placido

Best Quotes about Music

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Addison, Joseph

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

G. K. Chesterton

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Szell, George

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Lennon, John

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

Brown, James

16.

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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

23.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Green, Benny

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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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

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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

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Johnson, James Weldon

42.

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

43.

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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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore