Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Gore, Tipper

Best Quotes about Music

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Huneker, James G.

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Plutarch

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Davis, Miles

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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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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

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Sousa, John Philip

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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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

Dan Rather

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Rattle, Simon

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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 only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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

Plato

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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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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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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.