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

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Kin Hubbard

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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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

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Plato

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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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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Green, Benny

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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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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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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

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

Newman, Ernest

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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 expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

George Santayana

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis