Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

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

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

Auden, W. H.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Attali, Jacques

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

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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

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Szell, George

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

Miller, Henry

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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

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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

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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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

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

Green, Benny

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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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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

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Addison, Joseph

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Newman, Ernest

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

J. K. Rowling

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard