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

1.

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.

2.

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

Wilde, Oscar

3.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

4.

[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

5.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

7.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

8.

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

9.

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

William Shakespeare

10.

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

11.

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

Green, Benny

12.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

13.

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

J. K. Rowling

14.

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

15.

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

Wilson, Colin

16.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

17.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

22.

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

Miller, Henry

23.

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

Luther, Martin

24.

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

25.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

26.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

27.

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

28.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Plato

33.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

34.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

35.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

36.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

37.

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

38.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

39.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

40.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

41.

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

42.

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

43.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

44.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

47.

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

Szell, George

48.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

49.

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

Hugo, Victor

50.

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

John Erskine

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