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

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

George Eliot

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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

J. K. Rowling

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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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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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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Huneker, James G.

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Kin Hubbard

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Green, Benny

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Gibbons, Billy

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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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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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.