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

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

Huneker, James G.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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

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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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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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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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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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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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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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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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

Ed Gardner

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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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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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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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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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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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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

Kin Hubbard

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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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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

Newman, Ernest

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Billings, Josh