Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- J. K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Music

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

Pepys, Samuel

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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

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

Tate, Jeffrey

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

11.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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[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

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Dietz, Howard

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

Lynn, Loretta

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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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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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

37.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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 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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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

49.

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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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.