Motivational Quotes

Music

My music is best understood by children and animals.

- Igor Stravinsky

Best Quotes about Music

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

Aldous Huxley

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

10.

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

11.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

12.

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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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Szell, George

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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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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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?

William Shakespeare

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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

George Eliot

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

Woody Allen

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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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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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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Franklin, Aretha

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Huxley, Aldous

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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

G. K. Chesterton

43.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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