Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Franklin, Aretha

Best Quotes about Music

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Armstrong, Louis

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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

Szell, George

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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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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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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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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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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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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'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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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

J. K. Rowling

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Lynn, Loretta

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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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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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude