Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Auden, W. H.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Green, Benny

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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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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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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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Woody Allen

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.