Motivational Quotes

Music

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

- Ed Gardner

Best Quotes about Music

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

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)

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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

Sousa, John Philip

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.

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

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

10.

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

G. K. Chesterton

11.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

12.

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

13.

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

Wilson, Colin

14.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

15.

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

16.

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

17.

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

18.

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

19.

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

20.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

21.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

22.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

23.

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

24.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

25.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

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

27.

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

Huxley, Aldous

28.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

29.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

30.

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

31.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

32.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

33.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

35.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

36.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.

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

J. K. Rowling

38.

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

George Eliot

39.

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

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

41.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

42.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

43.

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

Brown, James

44.

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

Rattle, Simon

45.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

49.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

50.

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

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