Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Oscar Wilde

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

The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

Hoffer, Eric

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Luther, Martin

10.

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

Woody Allen

11.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

12.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

15.

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

16.

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

Billings, Josh

17.

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.

18.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

19.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

J. K. Rowling

22.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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

Gore, Tipper

25.

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

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Brown, James

28.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Miller, Henry

31.

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

32.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

33.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

39.

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

40.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

41.

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

42.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

43.

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

44.

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

Plato

45.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

46.

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

47.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

48.

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

49.

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

Dietz, Howard

50.

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

Wilson, Colin