Motivational Quotes

Music

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

- Edgar Wilson Nye

Best Quotes about Music

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

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Ruskin, John

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Miller, Henry

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Franklin, Aretha

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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

Martin Luther

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Davis, Miles

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

Wilson, Colin

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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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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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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

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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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.

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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[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

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

Green, Benny

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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

George Bernard Shaw