Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Gibbons, Billy

Best Quotes about Music

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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

Aldous Huxley

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

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

Rattle, Simon

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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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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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

16.

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

George Santayana

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Attali, Jacques

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

G. K. Chesterton

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

George Eliot

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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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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

35.

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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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

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

Dan Rather

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

Newman, Ernest

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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

Sousa, John Philip

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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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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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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