Motivational Quotes

Music

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Music

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

Brown, James

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

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sousa, John Philip

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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[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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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Mencken, H. L.

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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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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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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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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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.