Motivational Quotes

Music

Country music is three chords and the truth.

- Howard, Harlan

Best Quotes about Music

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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

George Santayana

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Szell, George

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Wilson, Colin

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

15.

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lennon, John

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

21.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

22.

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

Gibbons, Billy

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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

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

Green, Benny

34.

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

40.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

43.

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

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Ed Gardner

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.