Motivational Quotes

Music

The history of a people is found in its songs.

- Jellinek, George

Best Quotes about Music

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.

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

Addison, Joseph

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Armstrong, Louis

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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

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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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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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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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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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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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

Luther, Martin

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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

Gore, Tipper

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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

Aldous Huxley

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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

Franklin, Aretha

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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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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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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