Motivational Quotes

Music

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- Gore, Tipper

Best Quotes about Music

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

Lynn, Loretta

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

Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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

Lennon, John

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

Szell, George

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

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

George Eliot

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Wilson, Colin

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 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

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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[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

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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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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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Huneker, James G.