Motivational Quotes

Music

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

- Dvorak, Antonin

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Ruskin, John

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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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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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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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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 notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Dietz, Howard

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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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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 can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Green, Benny

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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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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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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

John Erskine

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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.