Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Ruskin, John

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

Aldous Huxley

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

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

Dan Rather

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

G. K. Chesterton

11.

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

12.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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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

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

17.

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

Dietz, Howard

19.

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

21.

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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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

Attali, Jacques

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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

Luther, Martin

30.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

Huxley, Aldous

33.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

34.

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

Green, Benny

35.

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

Newman, Ernest

36.

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

Brown, James

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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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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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.

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

Ed Gardner

42.

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

Winter, Arthur

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace