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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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

George Santayana

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Oscar Wilde

10.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

11.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

12.

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

13.

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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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

15.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

16.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

17.

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

Armstrong, Louis

18.

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

Attali, Jacques

20.

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

Huxley, Aldous

21.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

22.

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

Aldous Huxley

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

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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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

31.

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

32.

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

Huneker, James G.

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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

35.

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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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

37.

[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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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kin Hubbard

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

46.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

47.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

49.

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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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.