Motivational Quotes

Music

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

- G. K. Chesterton

Best Quotes about Music

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Plato

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Lennon, John

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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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

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Gibbons, Billy

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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

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Wilson, Colin