Motivational Quotes

Music

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

- Dvorak, Antonin

Best Quotes about Music

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Plutarch

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

10.

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

11.

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

13.

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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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

15.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

16.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

18.

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

19.

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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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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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

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

Davis, Miles

26.

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

Armstrong, Louis

27.

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

28.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

30.

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

Woody Allen

31.

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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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

33.

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

Wordsworth, William

34.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

35.

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

John Erskine

36.

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.

37.

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

Wilson, Colin

38.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

39.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

40.

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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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

42.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

43.

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

44.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

45.

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

46.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

47.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

48.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

49.

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.