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

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Plutarch

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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

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

Plato

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Wilson, Colin

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Woody Allen

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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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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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[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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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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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 is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Good music is very close to primitive language.