Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Johnson, James Weldon

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Szell, George

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Gibbons, Billy

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Attali, Jacques

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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

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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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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

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

J. K. Rowling

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Luther, Martin

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Green, Benny

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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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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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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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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare