Motivational Quotes

Music

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

- Edgar Wilson Nye

Best Quotes about Music

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Wordsworth, William

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

George Eliot

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

J. K. Rowling

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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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

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Ed Gardner

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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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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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

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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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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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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

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

28.

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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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Green, Benny

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

William Shakespeare

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

Szell, George

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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

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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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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 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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Rattle, Simon

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

Hugo, Victor

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William