Motivational Quotes

Music

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

- Herschel, Sir John

Best Quotes about Music

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

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

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

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Woody Allen

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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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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Wordsworth, William

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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

William Shakespeare

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

28.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Pepys, Samuel

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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

Ed Gardner

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Lennon, 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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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.

41.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

42.

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

Brown, James

43.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

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

Winter, Arthur