Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Franklin, Aretha

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Ed Gardner

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Billings, Josh

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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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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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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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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

Luther, Martin

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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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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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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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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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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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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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

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

Szell, George

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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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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

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther