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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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

Dietz, Howard

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Wilson, Colin

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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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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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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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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Zappa, Frank

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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

Green, Benny

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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

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

Armstrong, Louis

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

Newman, Ernest

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

33.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Tate, Jeffrey

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

G. K. Chesterton

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido