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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Plato

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

10.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Aldous Huxley

13.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

14.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

15.

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

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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

17.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

18.

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

19.

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

20.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

21.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

23.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

24.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

25.

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

26.

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)

27.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

28.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

30.

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

Huxley, Aldous

31.

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

32.

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

33.

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

Lennon, John

34.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

36.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

37.

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

J. K. Rowling

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

41.

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

42.

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

43.

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

Franklin, Aretha

44.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

45.

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

46.

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

Armstrong, Louis

47.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

48.

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

George Eliot

49.

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

Luther, Martin