Motivational Quotes

Music

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Music

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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

Green, Benny

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Dan Rather

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

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Davis, Miles

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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

10.

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 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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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

14.

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

George Santayana

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

Brown, James

18.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

19.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

George Eliot

27.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

29.

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

30.

[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

31.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

32.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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

Kin Hubbard

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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 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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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Miller, Henry

44.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

45.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

46.

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

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

Billings, Josh

48.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

49.

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

Carlyle, Thomas