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

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

Gore, Tipper

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

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

Plutarch

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

Woody Allen

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

Mencken, H. L.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Plato

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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

Gibbons, Billy

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

Miller, Henry

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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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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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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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

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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

Dietz, Howard

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Huxley, Aldous

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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

Green, Benny

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann 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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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

William Shakespeare

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

Luther, Martin

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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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.