Motivational Quotes

Music

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

- Dvorak, Antonin

Best Quotes about Music

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

Carlyle, Thomas

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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

G. K. Chesterton

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Addison, Joseph

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Mencken, H. L.

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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

Zappa, Frank

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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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

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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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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare