Motivational Quotes

Music

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

- Haweis, H. R.

Best Quotes about Music

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

Dan Rather

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Winter, Arthur

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

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

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lennon, John

10.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

12.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

13.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

16.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

17.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

18.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

22.

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

George Eliot

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Armstrong, Louis

25.

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

Zappa, Frank

26.

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

Wordsworth, William

27.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

28.

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

Plato

29.

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

Ed Gardner

30.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

31.

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

32.

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

Wilson, Colin

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Plutarch

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

43.

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

49.

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

Hugo, Victor