Motivational Quotes

Music

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

- Gershwin, George

Best Quotes about Music

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

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

Sousa, John Philip

10.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

11.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

12.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

13.

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

14.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

15.

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

16.

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

Attali, Jacques

17.

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

Davis, Miles

18.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

19.

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

Kin Hubbard

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Plutarch

23.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

24.

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

25.

[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

26.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

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

28.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

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

George Santayana

31.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

32.

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

Schnabel, Artur

33.

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

34.

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

Gore, Tipper

35.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

36.

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

Dan Rather

37.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

38.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

39.

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

Wilson, Colin

40.

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

41.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

42.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

43.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

44.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

45.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

48.

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

49.

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

Auden, W. H.

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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