Motivational Quotes

Music

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

- J. K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Music

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

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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

Dan Rather

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gore, Tipper

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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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

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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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Music is only love looking for words.

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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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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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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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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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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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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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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 is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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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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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

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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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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Plato