Motivational Quotes

Music

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

- Franklin, Aretha

Best Quotes about Music

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

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

Schnabel, Artur

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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

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

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

Brown, James

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilson, Colin

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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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 was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Szell, George

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

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

Auden, W. H.

28.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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

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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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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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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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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.

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

Luther, Martin

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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

J. K. Rowling

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