Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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

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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Gore, Tipper

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

J. K. Rowling

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Newman, Ernest

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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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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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Schnabel, Artur

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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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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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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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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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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

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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

Lennon, John

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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

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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

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Davis, Miles

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

George Bernard Shaw