Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

1.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

7.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

8.

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

George Bernard Shaw

9.

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

10.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

11.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

12.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

13.

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

15.

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

16.

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

Sousa, John Philip

17.

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

Szell, George

18.

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

19.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

20.

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

21.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

22.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

23.

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

G. K. Chesterton

24.

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

25.

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

Newman, Ernest

26.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

28.

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

29.

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

Tate, Jeffrey

30.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

31.

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

Pavarotti, Luciano

32.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

33.

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

Aldous Huxley

34.

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

Franklin, Aretha

35.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

36.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

37.

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

38.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

39.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

41.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

46.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

48.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.