Motivational Quotes

Music

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

- J. K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Music

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

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

John Erskine

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

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Woody Allen

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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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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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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

Sousa, John Philip

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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 the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Brown, James

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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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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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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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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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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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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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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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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