Motivational Quotes

Music

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

- Dvorak, Antonin

Best Quotes about Music

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Woody Allen

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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 high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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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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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Winter, Arthur

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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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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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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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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.