Motivational Quotes

Music

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Music

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Lennon, John

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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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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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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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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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Green, Benny

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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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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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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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

Miller, Henry

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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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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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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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 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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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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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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

Szell, George

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

47.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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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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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