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

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

Zappa, Frank

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

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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.

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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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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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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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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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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

Green, Benny

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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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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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

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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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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Huneker, James G.

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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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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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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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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

Gore, Tipper

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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 verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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

Lennon, John

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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

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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.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Franklin, Aretha

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

Dietz, Howard

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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 is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore