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

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

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

Lennon, John

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

Billings, Josh

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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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

Martin Luther

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Plato

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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.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Dietz, Howard

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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