Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Franklin, Aretha

Best Quotes about Music

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Wilson, Colin

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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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

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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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

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

Brown, James

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

Szell, George

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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

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

Schnabel, Artur

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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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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

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.