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

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

Johnson, Samuel

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

John Erskine

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

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Aldous Huxley

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Green, Benny

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

Kin Hubbard

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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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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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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

William Shakespeare

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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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.

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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