Motivational Quotes

Music

Music causes us to think eloquently.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dietz, Howard

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

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

10.

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

11.

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

Pepys, Samuel

12.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

13.

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

Hugo, Victor

14.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

15.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

16.

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

Miller, Henry

17.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

18.

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

George Bernard Shaw

19.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

23.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

24.

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

Armstrong, Louis

25.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

26.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

28.

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

29.

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

30.

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

31.

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

32.

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

33.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

34.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

36.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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

38.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

40.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

41.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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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

43.

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

44.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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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

46.

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

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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

48.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

J. K. Rowling

50.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio