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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

William Shakespeare

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Huneker, James G.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Miller, Henry

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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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

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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 can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Gibbons, Billy

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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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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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

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

Sousa, John Philip

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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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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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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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