Motivational Quotes

Music

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Music

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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

Martin Luther

10.

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

11.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

12.

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

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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Billings, Josh

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

Winter, Arthur

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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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

27.

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

J. K. Rowling

28.

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Lynn, Loretta

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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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[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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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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

40.

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

Aldous Huxley

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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 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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage