Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Sousa, John Philip

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Mencken, H. L.

13.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

15.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

16.

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

Lynn, Loretta

17.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

18.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

19.

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

J. K. Rowling

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

24.

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

25.

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

28.

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

Huxley, Aldous

29.

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

30.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

31.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

32.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

33.

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

G. K. Chesterton

34.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

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

Miller, Henry

36.

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

Huneker, James G.

37.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

38.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

39.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

40.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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

42.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

43.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

44.

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

Armstrong, Louis

45.

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

Dietz, Howard

46.

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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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)

48.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

49.

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

50.

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