Motivational Quotes

Music

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

- Dvorak, Antonin

Best Quotes about Music

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

Gore, Tipper

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

10.

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

11.

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

Sousa, John Philip

12.

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

Franklin, Aretha

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Zappa, Frank

15.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

16.

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

Martin Luther

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

21.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

24.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

25.

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

26.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

27.

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

28.

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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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

30.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

J. K. Rowling

34.

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

Woody Allen

35.

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

36.

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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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

40.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

43.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

44.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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

46.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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