Motivational Quotes

Music

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

- Dvorak, Antonin

Best Quotes about Music

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Rattle, Simon

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

George Santayana

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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

Green, Benny

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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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

Attali, Jacques

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

21.

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sousa, John Philip

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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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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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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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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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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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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 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 is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

38.

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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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 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

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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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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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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.