Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- George Eliot

Best Quotes about Music

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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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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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Gore, Tipper

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Plutarch

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Szell, George

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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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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

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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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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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

William Shakespeare

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Davis, Miles

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance