Motivational Quotes

Music

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

- Edgar Wilson Nye

Best Quotes about Music

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

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Lennon, John

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

J. K. Rowling

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

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

10.

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

Szell, George

11.

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

Woody Allen

12.

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

Rattle, Simon

13.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

G. K. Chesterton

15.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

16.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

17.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

18.

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

Billings, Josh

19.

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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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

21.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

22.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

23.

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

Armstrong, Louis

24.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

28.

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

Ruskin, John

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

George Eliot

30.

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

31.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

32.

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

33.

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

34.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

35.

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

36.

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

37.

[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

38.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

39.

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

40.

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

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

45.

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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

48.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

49.

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.

50.

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