Motivational Quotes

Music

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

Best Quotes about Music

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

Sousa, John Philip

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Dietz, Howard

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

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.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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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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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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Plato

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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

Lutoslawski, Witold

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

Huneker, James G.

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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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

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

Newman, Ernest

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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 is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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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

42.

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

Martin Luther

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

Billings, Josh

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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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.