Motivational Quotes

Music

Music causes us to think eloquently.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Music

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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 shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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 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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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

18.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Colin

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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

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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

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Szell, George

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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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 vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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 pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Kin Hubbard

45.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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