Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Gore, Tipper

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Franklin, Aretha

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Gibbons, Billy

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

William Shakespeare

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

12.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

14.

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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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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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

18.

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

Miller, 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)

20.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

21.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

22.

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

George Eliot

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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

25.

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

Martin Luther

26.

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

Rattle, Simon

27.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

28.

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

Aldous Huxley

29.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

30.

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

J. K. Rowling

31.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

32.

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

33.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

34.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

39.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

40.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

43.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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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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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Lennon, John

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas