Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Franklin, Aretha

Best Quotes about Music

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

Szell, George

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

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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)

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

John Erskine

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

Lennon, John

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Woody Allen

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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.

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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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

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

Armstrong, Louis

18.

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 can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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[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

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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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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Ruskin, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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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 most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Grant, Ulysses S.