Motivational Quotes

Music

Country music is three chords and the truth.

- Howard, Harlan

Best Quotes about Music

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Miller, Henry

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

Huneker, James G.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Gibbons, Billy

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Davis, Miles

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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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 wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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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

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Ed Gardner

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

William Shakespeare

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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 the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Mencken, H. L.

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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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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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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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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

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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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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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

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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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. 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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Gore, Tipper

45.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.