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

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

Mencken, H. L.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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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 was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Szell, George

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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[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 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

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

George Eliot

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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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. 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

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

Lennon, John

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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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van