Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- Grant, Ulysses S.

Best Quotes about Music

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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

Newman, Ernest

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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

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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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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Szell, George

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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

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Addison, Joseph

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Winter, Arthur

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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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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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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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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

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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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

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

Dietz, Howard

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Lynn, Loretta

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe