Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- G. K. Chesterton

Best Quotes about Music

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Szell, George

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

Lynn, Loretta

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Aldous Huxley

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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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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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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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

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

Dietz, Howard

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

William Shakespeare

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Wilson, Colin

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