Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- George Santayana

Best Quotes about Music

1.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

2.

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

3.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

4.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

5.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

6.

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

Lynn, Loretta

7.

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

8.

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

John Erskine

9.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

10.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

11.

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

12.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

13.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

15.

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

Ed Gardner

16.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

17.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

18.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

19.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

20.

[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

21.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

22.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

23.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

25.

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

Plato

26.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

27.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

28.

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

Szell, George

29.

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

30.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

31.

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

32.

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

Davis, Miles

33.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

34.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

35.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

36.

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

Auden, W. H.

37.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

38.

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

39.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

40.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

41.

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

Gibbons, Billy

42.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

43.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

44.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Billings, Josh

48.

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

49.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

50.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar