Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Gore, Tipper

Best Quotes about Music

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

J. K. Rowling

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

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

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

10.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

11.

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

Gore, Tipper

12.

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

13.

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

Lynn, Loretta

14.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

16.

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

17.

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

18.

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

Martin Luther

19.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

20.

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

21.

[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

22.

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

Szell, George

23.

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

Huxley, Aldous

24.

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

25.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

28.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

29.

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

G. K. Chesterton

30.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

31.

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

35.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

36.

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

Newman, Ernest

37.

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

Cocteau, Jean

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

39.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

40.

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

Woody Allen

41.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

43.

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

44.

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

Billings, Josh

45.

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

46.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Dan Rather

50.

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