Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Franklin, Aretha

Best Quotes about Music

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

Ed Gardner

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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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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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Franklin, Aretha

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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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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

23.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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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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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Woody Allen

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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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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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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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

Ruskin, John

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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 most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Miller, Henry

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

John Erskine

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

Lennon, John

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas