Motivational Quotes

Music

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

- Duffecy, James

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

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

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

J. K. Rowling

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Auden, W. H.

21.

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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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

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

Lennon, John

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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

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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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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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

Cocteau, Jean

32.

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

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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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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Green, Benny

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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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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Woody Allen

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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

47.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.