Motivational Quotes

Music

The high note is not the only thing.

- Domingo, Placido

Best Quotes about Music

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

Brown, James

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

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

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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 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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Ruskin, John

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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.

William Shakespeare

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, 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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Kin Hubbard

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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.