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 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

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Wilson, Colin

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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

Attali, Jacques

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Kin Hubbard

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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.

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Newman, Ernest

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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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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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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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?