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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Plutarch

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

Wordsworth, William

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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

G. K. Chesterton

13.

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

14.

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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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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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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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Gore, Tipper

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Luther, Martin

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Miller, Henry

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hugo, Victor

37.

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

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

Lennon, John

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

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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

George Eliot

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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