Motivational Quotes

Music

Music causes us to think eloquently.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Music

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

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Schnabel, Artur

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

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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 and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

18.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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

28.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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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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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido