Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Gore, Tipper

Best Quotes about Music

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Billings, Josh

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Martin Luther

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

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

Huneker, James G.

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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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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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Gibbons, Billy

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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

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

Gore, Tipper

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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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

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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

Plutarch

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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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

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence