Motivational Quotes

Music

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Music

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Gore, Tipper

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

George Santayana

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Luther, Martin

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

18.

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

Lennon, John

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Aldous Huxley

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

Woody Allen

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Dietz, Howard

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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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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Sousa, John Philip

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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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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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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