Motivational Quotes

Music

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

- Holly, Buddy

Best Quotes about Music

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

Luther, Martin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Plato

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Lennon, John

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

Woody Allen

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dietz, Howard

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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

Huneker, James G.

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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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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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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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

Szell, George

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Addison, Joseph

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Rattle, Simon

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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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