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 should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Kin Hubbard

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

George Eliot

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

Green, Benny

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Miller, Henry

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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 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

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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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

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie