Motivational Quotes

Music

You are the music while the music lasts.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Music

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

Billings, Josh

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

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

Miller, Henry

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Ed Gardner

15.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

George Eliot

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Sousa, John Philip

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Wordsworth, William

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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

G. K. Chesterton

31.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

32.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Armstrong, Louis

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

38.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

40.

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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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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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

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.