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

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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

Szell, George

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

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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 the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

15.

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

Newman, Ernest

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

19.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

20.

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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

Ed Gardner

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

Huneker, James G.

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

32.

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

Gibbons, Billy

33.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

34.

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

Gore, Tipper

35.

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

Plutarch

36.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

39.

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

40.

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

Dietz, Howard

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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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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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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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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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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.