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

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

George Eliot

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

11.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

John Erskine

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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

Lynn, Loretta

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Huneker, James G.

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

25.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Plato

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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

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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

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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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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Aldous Huxley

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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

42.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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 should never be harmless.